Google is doing a staged rollout for AR walking navigation in Google Maps on Pixel phones now.
At Google’s ongoing I/O 2019 annual developer conference, the company made a bunch of new software and hardware announcements, one of which was a new update to Google Maps. This update lets you use your phone’s camera during navigation, which overlays augmented reality (AR) arrows in the world around you, to help guide you to your destination. This works when you select ‘Walking‘ as the preferred method of travel in Google Maps. The update is rolling out to Pixel devices only at the moment, but is limited to regions that are covered in Street View. Unfortunately, this means India will not have the feature.
Google announced this at its keynote last night and also tweeted about it from its Google Maps handle.
