More info on Project Tango - https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/
SVO: Fast Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry 25 Feb 2014:
As a side-note, the guys at ETH Zurich are friggin' amazing and they do so much cool research. A big fan here!
Not so cool: Game keynotes seem to keep spreading Play Services PR instead of talking about making games, available frameworks and tooling, like on Apple and Microsoft conferences.
For instance, it really annoys me when Android Studio pushes you to add app indexing stuff, which in turn needs Play Services to work. Play Services unnecessarily bloats my APKs, so I go great lengths to avoid it.
I prefer a more agnostic Android Studio (and Android in general) rather than gravitating towards Google sponsored add-ons.
I worked previously on an ATAP project when I was a university postdoc (much of the engineering work gets farmed out to universities and subcontractors). Eventually I began wondering why I was working fifty hours a week for Google on a postdoc salary. It's a strange arrangement to wind up in.
I'm in love with the 2d/3d font and the way it animates both in the color cycling and number changing into one another. Its one of those things that I wish I would had thought of doing (knew how to do)
Don't ever change, Google.
And the next version (N) is already announced: https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html
This comment does not really make sense.
I attended I/O a few years ago (prior to joining Google) and really enjoyed the Moscone Center. Mainly because there was lots of hotels and restaurants in the area. Lodgings around the Google campus are pretty sparse, this feels like a mistake to me. Being able to walk to your hotel after a long day of focusing/listening was definitely nice.
That said, being able to visit the Google Campus if you've never been there is really nice. As well, I'm betting this will greatly reduce the costs of hosting the event and those funds can be used in a different way. And with Google's fleet of buses, it looks like they will pickup and drop people off at the hotels they have rooms blocked off at.
EDIT: as drl42 points out, the mascone center is undergoing renovation and probably wasn't available.
I don't understand your note about costs. Google has infinite money. Even mid-tier meetings are held at Moscone, so I don't think it's that expensive.
Are the I/O hordes really going to be visiting the Google Campus? For what reason?
It's pretty weird.
From the website: "To celebrate a decade of working closely with the developer community, we’ll be hosting I/O in our backyard at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA, a venue that has played host to some of the world’s biggest entertainers and events."
If it were a different company, maybe. But this is Google. They have effectively unlimited funds.
One of the reasons for this is that they used to hand out swag worth more than the ticket price (latest Nexus phones, etc).
This makes sense for Google - increasing developer mindshare and experience on their platforms is worth more than the device cost. But this also had the effect of "everyone" applying for Google I/O to get the swag, even if you are not too excited about attending the talks.
