Maps is also getting Glanceable directions as another new feature. As the name suggests, you will be able to glance through the navigation route and track your journey right from the overview window. The company has also announced a couple of nifty features for EV drivers, wherein they will get info regarding charging stops, fast charging stations, and spots such as supermarkets that have charging facility nearby.
Maps is also getting a live view feature for indoor locations such as airports, train stations, and shopping malls. As part of the initial roll out, as many as 1,000 locations will be covered in select cities, including Paris, Prague, Tokyo, Sydney, and Singapore. It will be available for both the iOS and Android versions of the app later this year.
Billions of people use Google Maps. The company is now evolving it into a multidimensional platform, bring Immersive View that uses AI to fuse "billions of street views and aerial shots" to offer a rich, natural and intuitive view of the place.
Live events are not free of bloopers and we just witnessed one. Google's Liz Reid, while talking about Lens and its new featuers, wanted to give a demo to the live audience. To her surprise, the smartphone was not available. She chuckled and said "we are missing the phone," before handing the reigns back to Prabhakar Raghavan.
Google Lens is getting updated to provide more context than just textual translation. Multisearch, which allows you to use Lens with text and images, is now live gloablly in over 70 languages. You will soon be able to use Lens to search any image that pops up in the mobile search results page.
Microsoft and Google are in engaging in a fierce batte. Late last month, Microsoft announced a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI, triggering a "code red" at Google. Soon, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai asked the people involved to accelerate the development of AI projects in the pipeline. Cut to this week, Google announced Bard on Tuesday. On the same day, Microsoft held a surprise event and launched a smarter version of Bing browser that combines search and chat capabilities. Hours later, Google now is taking the stage.
On Tuesday, Google announced 'Bard' as a response to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot which has challenged the tech giant and its so-called uncontested supremacy in all-things AI. Today, the spotlight will be on Bard. Google will demo all the cool stuff Bard is capable of thanks to deeper integration with Search, Maps, and more.
Google's 'Live from Paris' event will focus on the advancements the company has made in the field of artificial intelligence. As per the tech giant, it is "reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need."
