Project Tango’s capabilities have attracted the attention of NASA, which will launch several prototypes into space to experiment with robots in zero gravity. The good news is that developers interested in experimenting with this new technology will not have to fly to the International Space Station. According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has managed to integrate all Tango’s elements into a tablet.

As per report from the Wall Street Journal, Google is developing a new 7-inch tablet that can capture precise three-dimensional (3D) images objects. The tablet belongs to the Project Tango and could be officially announced before the Google I/O 2014, the annual conference that the company performs for developers and scheduled in late June.

Wall Street Journal claims to have obtained advances on the Tango-related product from people familiar with Google’s plans. Google intends to produce about four prototypes of the tablet as early as next month, and it seems to be a breakthrough-especially with regard to the three-dimensional mapping.

Project Tango is ready to tango

It appears that, in addition to integrating one 7-inch screen, the Tango tablet will be equipped with two rear cameras and infrared depth sensors, which together with an advanced software, allow to capture accurate 3D images. The report further says that about 4,000 units in prototype stage already made ​​and waiting in warehouses of the company to be unveiled at Google I/O event.

Project Tango is a unique and innovative platform for Android, designed primarily for the creation of a map of the surrounding environment. Google is already announced a flagship product of the project, a smartphone equipped with sensors similar to those used for the tablet and able to map the environments in three dimensions, a possibility never before seen on mobile devices. Google claimed the handset was capable of capturing more than 250,000 3D measurements per second in order to model the environment it is moving through. Tango may be used for example to help the visually impaired by providing them step-by-step surrounding information inside of a building.

Google says its goal with Project Tango is to “give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.” Google has had several hundred prototypes of the Project Tango smartphones distributed to developers who are working on the mapping and navigation within buildings. Another possible field of application are games that use the surrounding space. In addition, the devices could be used prior to the establishment of an apartment or a house to capture the room dimensions.