Google I/O 2018: An upcoming Google Maps will let you navigate the world with just your camera
6 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2018: An upcoming Google Maps will let you navigate the world with just your camera

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Google will collate data from Street View, your location and the phone’s compass to give you a visual indicator of where to go in the updated Google Maps. At Google I/O 2018, Google announced a new navigation system for Android devices. To use the new Visual Positioning System, you simply fire up the camera in Google Maps and look around. The company also launched Android P and other new features for Google apps on the first day of 2018 Google I/O.

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Looking for new activities? Google wants you to turn to its navigation app
5 months ago

Looking for new activities? Google wants you to turn to its navigation app

LA Times  

Search giant Google wants people to use its navigation app for more than just finding directions and avoiding traffic. With 2 billion people using Google Maps every month, the company envisions people also will turn to the navigation app for inspiration, executives said at a media event at the company’s Street View Garage in Palo Alto on Wednesday. Miriam Daniel, …

Google rolling out 'Immersive View' in Maps worldwide
2 years ago

Google rolling out 'Immersive View' in Maps worldwide

India TV News  

Google has finally started rolling out the "Immersive View" feature widely for Google Maps, which was announced nearly a year ago. The new Immersive View occurs by rolling out and appearing for some Google Maps users, which further indicates that they are able to use the function when the user will be viewing cities like London and Berlin, 9to5Google reported. …

Google Maps gets improved live view, eco-friendly routing in latest update
2 years, 5 months ago

Google Maps gets improved live view, eco-friendly routing in latest update

The Hindu  

Google last week shared that it will be bringing four new features to Google maps. These updates, according to the company’s blog, will include features like the addition of aerial views of 250 plus landmarks across the work, improvements to live view and nearby search and addition of eco-friendly routing for delivery and ride sharing companies. The immersive view will …

Google Maps gets immersive view, other new features
2 years, 10 months ago

Google Maps gets immersive view, other new features

India Today  

At the Google IO 2022 event, the tech giant announced new features for Google Maps, used by billions of users globally. The company announced that Maps will soon allow users to get an immersive view of the world, find the most fuel-efficient route, and use Live View in third-party apps. The new immersive view will allow users to experience what …

Google I/O 2019: AR is now coming to search while Google Lens becomes more useful
5 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2019: AR is now coming to search while Google Lens becomes more useful

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Google just introduced a number of interesting new additions like augmented reality for Google Search today at I/O 2019, as well as new features for Google Lens. As Google CEO Sundar Pichai puts it, “Sometimes what’s most helpful in understanding the world is being able to see it visually.” Announcing the new addition on stage, Google said the company will …

Google I/O 2019: Privacy controls for Maps, Search, Pixel phones announced
5 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2019: Privacy controls for Maps, Search, Pixel phones announced

Firstpost  

Google is launching an Incognito mode for Google Maps and Google search later this year. Alphabet Inc’s Google business on Tuesday announced new privacy controls for its services, including “Incognito mode” for Google Maps, and published new privacy commitments for its hardware, showing how increased public scrutiny is forcing greater transparency in Silicon Valley. Incognito mode, which is launching on …

Google Maps AR navigation is slowly being demoed to a few Local Guides
6 years, 1 month ago

Google Maps AR navigation is slowly being demoed to a few Local Guides

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Google back at I/O 2018, its annual developer conference gave all of us a look at a new augmented reality feature for Google Maps. While the feature isn’t rolling out for everyone just yet, David Pierce from The Wall Street Journal appears to have a look at what is deemed to be “an early version” of Maps with AR. Locations …

Nokia Camera update brings Google Lens, Google Motion support to devices
6 years, 7 months ago

Nokia Camera update brings Google Lens, Google Motion support to devices

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The update will also overhaul the camera UI a fair bit with a new hamburger menu to access modes. HMD Global seems to have prepped a massive camera update for all their smartphones and reports suggest that the update introduces a number of features that Nokia users were missing out on lately. As per a report by Beebom, the update …

Google I/O 2018: Google Lens now works in real-time and will be integrated into most native camera interfaces
6 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2018: Google Lens now works in real-time and will be integrated into most native camera interfaces

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Google Lens now work’s proactively as you move the camera and pop’s up markers or information cards as you move. At Google I/O 2018, Google took the next step and announced that Lens will now be built directly into the native camera app on supported devices. Google Lens also lets users make sense of a page of words by showing …

Google I/O 2018 Day 1 highlights: Android P features, Google Assitant updates, Google Camera improvements and more
6 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2018 Day 1 highlights: Android P features, Google Assitant updates, Google Camera improvements and more

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Day 1 of Google’s annual developer conference I/O 2018 was full of new announcements and exciting updates for many of Google’s products. Though we didn’t get to know what Google plans on calling Android P, amazing new developments with Google Assistant, Google Lens, and Maps more than enough made up for it. Google Photos Next up was Google Photos, where …

Google Lens Turns Your Camera Into a Search Box
7 years, 10 months ago

Google Lens Turns Your Camera Into a Search Box

Wired  

Google is remaking itself as an AI company, a virtual assistant company, a classroom-tools company, a VR company, and a gadget maker, but it's still primarily a search company. And today at Google I/O, its annual gathering of developers, CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new product called Google Lens that amounts to an entirely new way of searching the internet: …

Google’s VR Camera App Will Help You Search ‘Virtually’ Online
9 years ago

Google’s VR Camera App Will Help You Search ‘Virtually’ Online

The Quint  

Internet giant Google is rumoured to have included an extra modification of Google Goggles to the official Google Camera app in Android devices. Google Goggles is an augmented reality app that allows users to make a search by taking a picture of a product or item. The Goggles app is capable of reading text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, …

Google starts Street View in Greece after spat
10 years, 9 months ago

Google starts Street View in Greece after spat

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Google launched its Street View map service in Greece on Thursday after winning approval from the country’s privacy authority, which had blocked the ground-level map application five years ago. Company officials said the service went live after “extensive and detailed” negotiations with the country’s Data Protection Authority, which last year lifted objections made to the project in 2009. Culture Minister …

Google I/O 2013: Google Maps gets a slick new interface
11 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2013: Google Maps gets a slick new interface

Firstpost  

At its I/O conference, Google announced a series of updates for Google Maps. The new Google Maps as its being called will be rolled out in a slow phase and is currently available on invite. To get an invite to the new Google Maps, Some of the features include: A customised map for users: Each click will draw new maps …

Google I/O 2013: Google Maps gets a slick new interface
11 years, 10 months ago

Google I/O 2013: Google Maps gets a slick new interface

Firstpost  

At its I/O conference, Google announced a series of updates for Google Maps. The new Google Maps as its being called will be rolled out in a slow phase and is currently available on invite. To get an invite to the new Google Maps, Some of the features include: A customised map for users: Each click will draw new maps …

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