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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Google unveils ’Project Tango’ 3D smartphone platform Google公佈3D智慧型手機平台「探戈計畫」
陳伃軒
Google announced a new research project Thursday aimed at bringing 3D technology to smartphones, for potential applications such as indoor mapping and helping blind people navigate.
Google週四宣布一項嶄新的研究計畫，旨在將3D科技帶入智慧型手機，可望帶來如室內地圖和幫助視障者導航的應用程式。
The California tech giant said its "Project Tango" would provide prototypes of its new smartphone to outside developers to encourage the writing of new applications.
這家加州科技巨擘說，其「探戈計畫」將提供這支新型智慧型手機的原型機給外部開發商，以鼓勵其撰寫新應用程式。
Project leader Johnny Lee said the goal of the project, which incorporates robotics and vision-processing technology, is "to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion."
計畫負責人強尼．李說，這項結合機器人學和視覺處理技術的計畫的目標，是要「賦予行動裝置人類的空間和運動感知能力」。
"What if you could capture the dimensions of your home simply by walking around with your phone before you went furniture shopping?" Google said on its Project Tango web page.
「如果在採購家具之前，你只需要帶著手機在家中到處走動，便能讓它紀錄住家空間？」Google在「探戈計畫」網路頁面上說。
"What if you never again found yourself lost in a new building? What if the visually impaired could navigate unassisted in unfamiliar indoor places?"
「如果你發現自己將不會再次在新大樓內迷路？如果視障人士能夠在不熟悉的室內空間獨立活動？」
The technology could also be used for "playing hide-and-seek in your house with your favorite game character, or transforming the hallways into a tree-lined path."
這項科技還可以用來「在家裡與你最愛的電玩角色玩捉迷藏，或將走廊變成林蔭大道」。
Smartphones are equipped with sensors which make over 1.4 million measurements per second, updating the positon and rotation of the phone.（AFP）
這個智慧型手機搭載多個每秒進行超過140萬次測量的感應器，以更新手機的位置和旋轉方向。（法新社）
新聞辭典
navigate：動詞，導航、操縱。例句：We’ll go with my car and you can navigate.（我們會開我的車前往，你來駕駛。）
impaired：形容詞，受損的。例如hearing-impaired（聽力受損）。
rotation：名詞，旋轉、循環。例句：The moon moves in the same direction as the earth’s rotation.（月亮移動方向和地球自轉的方向一樣。）
