![]() “With Project Tango technology users cannot make mistakes anymore,” said Sensopia CEO Pierre Gaubil in a statement. Users can also walk within the map, revealing any blind spots by capturing it with the Tango camera - (kind of like those flying lit-up balls used in the movie Prometheus to create a map of a vast alien spaceship, except real). Unlike Smart Picture, MagicPlan focuses on surveying a venue or building and creating a thorough indoor map, which includes room measurements and displays the shape of the room. Montreal-based software publisher Sensopia, who was also invited to present at Google I/O this week, debuted its new MagicPlan service today that takes a different approach for the usefulness of measurements and mapping. Bamford declined to disclose any of its clients, he did say that Smart Picture is in ongoing discussions with many home improvement-related businesses.īut Smart Picture isn’t the only company focused on providing quick measurements via the 3D imaging tech within Google Tango Hardware. More advanced features would require a paid subscription that the startup would then take a cut from. Smart Picture plans to generate revenue through partnerships with its business clients, who would gain access to a limited version of the smart measurement service for free. “But having a phone with 3D mapping will allow us to find measurements much more efficiently.” “We wanted to build something that could immediately be used by everyone regardless of the hardware,” Bamford said. “Our technology started by combining multiple static images to reach meaningful measurements,” Bamford told me, adding that this could be done using regular smartphones as long as a reference object (aka a piece of paper with a bar code or other identifiable image on it) is included within the shots. Or in some cases, home improvement businesses could even outsource a preliminary estimate for a job by letting customers take the measurements - even if they don’t have a 3D mapping camera. Contractors would save lots of time measuring dimensions of a room or building by letting a Smart Picture-powered app do the heavy lifting. Home improvement businesses in particular may find a smart measurement service like Smart Pictures very useful to their day-to-day operations. For example, Home Depot could integrate Smart Picture’s tech into its own mobile app, which its customers could then use for home improvement projects. Instead, the company plans to license its technology to businesses in the home improvement and insurance industries - sort of like a Measurement-as-a-Service, if you will. ![]() Smart Picture’s business strategy doesn’t include pushing out a consumer-facing application.
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