Project Tango was an API for augmented reality apps that was killed and replaced by ARCore. Launched December 1, 2014; shut down December 15, 2017 — it lived 3 years. One of 11 Google products killed in 2017. Tango was an augmented reality computing platform, developed and authored by the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), a skunkworks division of Google. It used computer vision to enable mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to detect their position relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals. This allowed application developers to create user experiences that include indoor navigation, 3D mapping, physical space measurement, environmental recognition, augmented reality, and windows into a virtual world. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).