Lenovo will begin selling a sub-$500 smartphone that runs Google’s Project Tango 3D mapping technology starting this summer, the company announced late Thursday at CES.

Project Tango is an ongoing effort by Google to allow a mobile device like a smartphone to measure spaces and provide information to a user that can be useful for navigating indoor locations. Lenovo also envisions adding augmented reality apps that can be used in games or in shopping for furniture and sizing up how the furniture fits in a room. The apps rely on the physical space around a smartphone user as detected by the 3D Project Tango technology.

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