Without a question, the biggest news to emerge from the Google I/O 2019 event is the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL smartphones. With…
Without a question, the biggest news to emerge from the Google I/O 2019 event is the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL smartphones. With that said, Google’s has made a bevy of announcements that were equally deserving of the spotlight.
Google opened I/O 2019 by announcing augmented reality models for Google search results. Users can rotate these models and view supported animations to see how they move. If the device supports Google AR, the models can also be projected onto a real-world surface. During the presentation, Google demonstrated an AR model of an arm’s muscle structure and a rotatable shoe to represent its vision for a richer online shopping experience.
Google Lens, Google’s object and image recognition feature, has already accumulated over 1 billion uses worldwide. Its relationship with its users is symbiotic; users get to better understand what they’re looking at, and the image data helps Google to index the world. Later this month, Google Lens will able to help you pick out what to eat from a menu by highlighting the most popular items through a quick scan. The highlights are interactive, too, as users will be able to tap on them to summon more context on the particular dish. In addition, it will be able to calculate how much to tip and split the bill by scanning the receipt. Google is also partnering up with magazines and bookmakers to bring animated recipes through scanning the page.
Google’s Go AI search app is designed for the bottommost budget phones (think the in ranges of $35). Targeting users of these devices who have low literacy, Google is adding on-the-fly translation and text-to-voice capabilities to Google Go. When the user scans an image of the text, Google Go provides an option to read them out aloud and highlights the words as it progresses. Even more impressive, Google was somehow able to compress the voice recognition data in a dozen languages to just 100KB.
Google is also looking to integrate Google Duplex into the web.
