Google continues to deploy AI throughout its platform, giving Maps an AI-driven improve.
The corporate outlined the function in a weblog put up, starting with the Immersive View that debuted at I/O:
Say you wish to bike alongside the water to the Palace of Wonderful Arts in San Francisco. Simply request biking instructions, then faucet the Immersive View preview to see your route in a shocking, multidimensional view from begin to end. You possibly can put together for every flip as if you happen to had been there with detailed, visible turn-by-turn instructions, and use the time slider to plan when to move out primarily based on useful info, like simulated site visitors and climate circumstances. That method, you possibly can simply keep away from using throughout wet climate or heavy site visitors.
All of this builds on our work for Immersive View for locations, which makes use of AI to fuse collectively billions of Avenue View and aerial pictures so you possibly can know what a restaurant or landmark is like earlier than you go. Now builders also can create their very own immersive experiences with the launch of Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Google Maps Platform this week.
Google can also be leverage AI to enhance its Lens function:
Google Maps additionally makes it simpler to know your environment when you get someplace — like if you happen to’re exiting a subway station and must orient your self or if you happen to’re scoping out a brand new neighborhood and wish to search out the closest espresso store. Lens in Maps (previously known as Search with Dwell View) makes use of AI and augmented actuality that will help you rapidly acclimate your self — whether or not you’re navigating a brand new metropolis or discovering native hidden gems.
Merely faucet the Lens icon within the search bar and raise your cellphone to search out details about close by ATMs, transit stations, eating places, espresso retailers and shops. In our largest growth of this function but, beginning this week Lens in Maps is coming to greater than 50 new cities together with Austin, Las Vegas, Rome, São Paulo and Taipei.
Maps can also be receiving plenty of extra updates, together with extra detailed map views, offering extra charging station info for EV drivers, and photo-first outcomes for a lot of queries, equivalent to “animal latte artwork.”
