The day after Google gave its developers a vision for the immediate future, Regina Dugan and the ATAP team — a small band of pirates trying to do cool shit, as she calls them — have taken the stage to talk about a few slightly more ambitious things. The announcement came after a handful of demos that make clear how much potential Project Tango really has. What’s missing is the hardware and the software. He showed demos of mapping his house, playing a virtual-reality game that required him to squat with his tablet to chat with a very short wizard, and more. The whole story of Project Tango is the possibilities that arise when youve mapped the world around you, and what can happen when youre mapping it in real time.