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Google Plans to Map the Interior World in 3-DTango’s CloudThe company is hosting four I/O sessions on Tango this year, up from one in 2015."With I/O it feels like they’re really doubling down on it," said Andrew Nakas, who has been building Tango applications for two years. "I can do things now I had no expectation I could do back then in 2014."Kris Kitchen, an inventor, built an application for the blind using Tango and a backpack-sized speaker called a SubPac. Tango maps a space and passes that data to the SubPac, which vibrates differently according to the proximity of objects. That gives blind people an additional sense -- touch -- alongside hearing to get around.For Tango applications like this to reach the most people, 3-D data will need to be easily shareable among devices. That would mean one person could map a museum, and another person could build an application based on the original map, or extend it, saving effort.Google is working on this by building a system that allows Tango devices to share maps with other devices. It may also weave all these maps together and store the information in its data centers so it can be accessed by even more devices.<br>