Google eliminates Measure, its augmented reality app for measuring distances left unsupported

Almost three years ago, Google released Measure for ARCore-enabled mobile devices. It is, or rather, it was an augmented reality app for measuring distances, but now we find out that * has been dropped by the company.

Google Measure, or Google Measurement of our language, began its journey in 2016 as an app for Tango devices. Then in 2018 with the arrival of ARCore the application became compatible with our mobiles. However in 2021, after five years of life, we see with a discreet Google press release the death of its measurement application.

Google Measure disappears

Google informs in the Measure tab of the Play Store that “the application is no longer supported and will no longer be updated. Users who have installed it can continue to use it on compatible devices.”

This means that Google Measure It can no longer be downloaded from new devices, it can only be downloaded again if we had installed it beforehand. The app no ​​longer appears in the Google Play search engine, so if we haven’t saved its download link, we’ll have to search for it from Play Store> My Apps & Games> Library.

Google Measure It hadn’t been updated since February 2020, but Google’s decision to remove it took many of us by surprise, since Measurements was Google’s alternative to Apple’s Measurements app.

With this decision, Google stops offering its users its own solution for taking measurements using the camera and augmented reality, since it has transformed our mobile into a tape measure. Now if we want to make measurements from our mobile we will have to use other AR apps, tales como AR Ruler or ARPlan 3D.