Ever since Autofuss has been acquired by Google last year, we have been exposed to some truly amazing ideas and technologies – some of which we can, some we cannot talk about. Project Tango, an effort to teach mobile devices how to sense the world around them in 3D, has been probably the most impressive undertaking I had the pleasure to be introduced to.

My small, dedicated team at Autofuss has been working with Tango in the past several months, and The Journey is the most recent film we created about the project.

Lead by Johnny Chung Lee, Project Tango took a fairly unorthodox approach to the development of this new technology. Rather than complete secrecy, Google engineers collaborated with research labs and academia, developing both the software as well as the current incarnation of the project – the Tango Tablet.

This film is a tribute to all the amazing minds involved in making Tango a reality. It documents the amazing journey of computer vision and 3D sensing that led to today’s ability to contain all these amazing technologies in a user-oriented mobile device.

CREDITS:

Creative Director: Quba Michalski

Director of Photography: Devin Whetstone

Directed by: Quba Michalski, Micah Gendron

Art Director: Yalda Zakeri

Assistant Cameraman: Ian Colon

Producer: Andrew Devansky

Editor: Ian Colon

Post Supervisor and Compositing: Quba Michalski

Motion Design and Titles: Conor Grebel, Peter Clark, Nathaniel Costa

Color grading: Marshall Plante (Ntropic)

Original Music and Sound Engineering: Harald Boysen

Minnesota unit:

Gaffer: Greg Niska

Sound Mixer: Patrick Schaefer

Grip and Lightning Supplies: Tasty Lighting Co.

Washington DC unit:

Gaffer: Doug Ray

Grip: Jesse Fresco

Sound Mixer: Brian Garfield

Assistant Cameraman: Michael Krebs

Grip and Lightning Supplies: Washington Source

Los Angeles unit:

Gaffer: Tej Virdi

Grip: Blake Smith

Sound Mixer: Jeremy Sugalski

Grip and Lightning Supplies: Cinelease

Zurich unit:

Fixer/Production Manager: Regula Begert

Gaffer: Andre Pinkus

Electrician: Viktor Zemeckas

Sound Mixer: Florian Flossmann

Extra Camera Equipment: Eberle Film Equipment

Grip and Lightning Supplies: FTK

Sunnyvale unit:

Director of Photography: Philip Lima

Assistant Cameraman, Sound Mixer: Donald Eldridge

Grip: Nick Alheit

Grip, Lighting, and Camera Supplies: Impact Media

Misc:

Camera and Equipment Rental: Chater Camera San Francisco

Camera Equipment Rental: Videofax San Francisco

This video can also be watched at YouTube and Vimeo.