Although Google Maps is currently the most used service and application by users, Google continues to offer new features to it. interesting features. It changes its design with a modern interface and prepares support for detecting our location using satellites.

But in the context of Google I/O 2024, which we covered last week, it unveiled a new feature that left us speechless. This augmented reality feature (AR) and artificial intelligence that will change practice forever.

This is Google Maps with AI and AR everywhere

As Google itself puts it, last year it launched Geospatial Creator, a program through which users can contribute by creating “immersive experiences” without the need to program code. So much accumulated 2,700 participants and now the Mountain View company is ready to announce a feature that leverages content.

First of all, we know that this augmented reality function can be used with the native application on Android. After searching for a location, if available, AR content Following an image containing the text “AR Experience”.

To enjoy projected content in augmented reality, all you have to do is pick up your phone as if you were going to use Live View. This will come in the form of a feature early access -Available in limited quantities- for countries like Singapore and a city in France (specifically Paris).

There’s a good reason for this, and Google has worked with the Singapore Tourism Board and Google Arts and Culture to create “real world” use cases so partners can benefit from it. reach wider audiences.

First, augmented reality experiences developed Merli’s Immersive Adventure, an AR program to get to know Singapore. Added now new attractions In tourist areas of the city such as Chinatown and Gardens by the Bay.

The second experience, located in the city of Paris, allows you to observe the pavilions of the 1900 Universal Exposition distributed along the River Seine. So any user can learn more about historical moments of French culture in a completely immersive way.

Google has confirmed that they will reveal the full story of this experience after the summer, but there is no doubt that this is a function that looks like magic and brings us closer to reality. Places and times we wouldn’t otherwise see.

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