Although Google Maps is already the service – and application – most used by users, Google continues to offer new features. cool features. It changes its design to adopt a modern interface and prepares support to locate us using satellites.
However, in the context of Google I/O 2024 that we talked about last week, it unveiled a new feature that left us speechless. It’s the augmented reality functionality (AR) and artificial intelligence that will change the app forever.
It’s Google Maps with AI and AR everywhere
As Google itself comments, last year it launched Geospatial Creator, a program through which users can contribute by creating “immersive experiences” without having to program any code. This accumulated until 2,700 participants and now the Mountain View firm is ready to announce a feature that takes advantage of content.
First of all, we know that this augmented reality function will be available from Android with the native application. After searching for a location, if available, the AR content after an image with the text “AR Experience”.
Just lift your phone, as if you were going to use Live View, to enjoy the content projected in augmented reality. This will take the form of a feature Early Access
There’s good reason, and Google has worked with the Singapore Tourism Board and Google Arts & Culture to create “real world” use cases for partners to leverage. reach a wider audience.
First, augmented reality experiences enhanced Merli’s Immersive Adventure, an augmented reality program for exploring Singapore. Now added new points of interest in tourist areas of the city, such as Chinatown and Gardens by the Bay.
The second experience, located in the Parisian city, allows you to observe the pavilions of the Universal Exhibition of 1900, distributed along the Seine. Thus, any user can learn more about historical moments of French culture in a completely immersive way.
Google has confirmed that after the summer they will reveal the whole story of this experience, but there is no doubt that it is a function that seems magical and that brings us closer to places and times we might not otherwise see.
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