Google has unveiled a new experimental smartphone capable of mapping the surroundings in 3D and in real-time.



Called Project Tango, the smartphone, still in early stages of development, will soon be made available to researchers and software developers to test and develop applications.



Google’s California-based Advanced Technology and Projects group has been secretly working on the device for the past year and only introduced the gadget yesterday in a video on YouTube.



“Mobile devices today suppose the physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen, yet we all live in a three-dimensional world,” said project leader Johnny Lee in the video. “Our goal is to give mobile devices a human scale understanding of space and motion.”



Google has collaborated with universities, research labs and industrial partners from around the world to harness the latest advances in robotics and computer vision and concentrate them into a single smartphone.



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