My initial idea follows on from the idea inspired by the Digital Doctor and using Google’s Project Tango which is a 3D mapping concept. This could be used to help detect hazards in a space, for carers looking after someone in need or potentially new parents to detect dangers which can be fixed for a small child. Another idea would be for location mapping for navigation purposes. This could work in conjunction with Google Maps. This could be particularly helpful in a hospital for example which can be an extremely expansive space and could help you find a particular department. This could be done by having elements in a virtual reality overlaid in a style similar to augmented reality
Project Tango
“What is Project Tango?
As we walk through our daily lives, we use visual cues to navigate and understand the world around us. We observe the size and shape of objects and rooms, and we learn their position and layout almost effortlessly over time. This awareness of space and motion is fundamental to the way we interact with our environment and each other. We are physical beings that live in a 3D world. Yet, our mobile devices assume that physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen.
The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.
Our team has been working with universities, research labs, and industrial partners spanning nine countries around the world to build on the last decade of research in robotics and computer vision, concentrating that technology into a unique mobile device. We are putting early prototypes into the hands of developers that can imagine the possibilities and help bring those ideas into reality.
We hope you will take this journey with us. We believe it will be one worth traveling.
– Johnny Lee and the ATAP-Project Tango Team”