Google has been working on Tango, its AR platform for smartphones, since 2013. Since then, only one smartphone has shipped that supports Tango: the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro, which I reviewed back in December. Now, the second Tango phone is here.

Well, sort of.

Asus still hasn’t said exactly when its Tango-equipped smartphone, the new ZenFone AR, will ship, nor has it said how much it will cost. But the company did host a press event in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, inviting people like myself to come and try out production-ready units of the ZenFone AR, which suggested that its actual launch is imminent.

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