Google and AR- Bringing our Future a Little Faster
Google and AR- Bringing our Future a Little Faster
What is Augmented Reality?
Augmented reality projects digital information and content onto the real environment, making it appear as though they're right next to you, in your own place. AR gives your devices new opportunities to aid you during your day by allowing you to interact with digital material, in the same manner, you interact with the real world. It allows you to visually search for items by directing your camera to those things. Layering visual, immersive material atop your actual life may provide solutions precisely where your queries are. Goggle has become a lifeline for most people by combining augmented reality with its already impressive features. Here are some of the features that have made our everyday lives a little easier:
1. Google lens and AR
Google Lens is a collection of vision-based computer skills. It can recognise what you're looking at and copy or interpret text, identify animals and plants, explore destinations or menus, locate items, find visually similar photos, and perform other helpful tasks.
How does Google Lens function?
Lens analyses the things in your image to other pictures and scores them according to how similar and relevant they are to the items in the original photo. It also searches the internet for more related results based on the things in your images. The lens may also employ other sound signals to assess ranking and relevancy, such as language, words, and other meta-data on the image's host site. Lens often creates numerous possible results while evaluating an image and ranks the likelihood of each result's relevance. It's not always easy to express what we're looking for in a search engine. Other times, it's precise words that we're looking for. Now, with the help of Google Lens, you can just point your camera & it will assist you in looking for the exact thing that you were trying to find. Wherever you need answers, you'll find them Lens is available on all of your devices and in your favourite Google apps, including the Google App, Google Photos, and Google Camera.
2. Google Search and Augmented Reality
You may now utilise AR to insert 3D digital things directly from Chrome Search or web pages in your own location. With a better sense of perspective and scale, learn
more about anything from human anatomy to NASA's Curiosity Rover to creatures like penguins, hedgehogs, and sharks using the Google search option. All you need for this is an Android 7 and up phone, and if you want 3D results to watch and interact with, you would need an Android phone that supports ARCore.
3. Google Maps and AR
Google Maps' Live View feature aids navigation by allowing you to regain your bearings. Google makes it easier to orient oneself in the environment with these new Live View features, whether you're wandering about, exiting a public transit stop, or meeting up with your friends. You can see arrows, instructions, and distance markers displayed directly on top of your environment, courtesy of augmented reality, so you don't have to spend as much time figuring out which way to go. You may currently use the Live View option to view your destination in the actual world when you pick or search for a location on Google Maps. Soon, you'll be able to view local landmarks to orient yourself and grasp your surroundings quickly and effortlessly. Live View can show you how much further away specific locations are and which direction you must go to reach them.
4. ARCore
ARCore is a Google software development kit that allows developers to create augmented reality apps. To merge digital content with the actual environment as viewed through the camera of a tablet or smartphone, ARCore employs three leading technologies: i. The phone can comprehend and monitor its position to the rest of the world thanks to its six degrees of freedom. ii. Thanks to its environmental awareness, the phone can determine the size and position of horizontal flat surfaces such as the ground or a coffee table. iii. The phone can estimate the current illumination conditions in the environment via light estimation. ARCore has been implemented in a wide range of devices.
