Google today showed how AI is helping bring immersive intuitive maps and augmented reality navigation to life. The new Google Maps reimagines the user experience, creatively analyzes the movement, helping to make smarter choices. Also introduced are new features for drivers of electric vehicles and personal mobility aids (PIMs), pedestrians and public transport passengers.
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Immersive viewing is a new way to explore the area, allowing you to be virtually present in the chosen place before actually visiting. Using advances in artificial intelligence and computer vision, Immersive View combines billions of street views and aerial photographs to create a complete digital model of the world. And on top of the static model, relevant current information is superimposed, such as weather, traffic jams and congestion.
When planning to visit a particular attraction, you can first virtually hover over the building and see the surroundings and entrances. Viewing views of the terrain at different times of the day is available by simply moving the time slider, just like the weather forecast. Virtually “entering” the building, you can pre-compile the best route, depending on the occupancy and attendance of the premises. Going to street level, you can explore nearby restaurants, and even look inside to quickly get a sense of the atmosphere of the place before booking a table.
These realistic scenes are created using Neural Radiation Fields (NeRF), an advanced artificial intelligence technique that transforms ordinary images into three-dimensional ones. NeRF allows you to accurately recreate a place, including its lighting, materials, and objects in the background.
Immersive View is available today in London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo. And in the coming months, it will be launched in even more cities, including Amsterdam, Dublin, Florence and Venice.
Live View is a new search feature that uses artificial intelligence and augmented reality to use the camera to find and show on the screen the objects you are looking for and information about them, such as ATMs, restaurants, public transport stops, simply by pointing your phone in the right direction. Recently, Live View Search has been launched in London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco and Tokyo. This feature will cover Barcelona, Dublin and Madrid in the coming months.
Augmented reality can be especially useful when moving through difficult places, such as an unfamiliar airport. To date, Live View is already operating at airports in some US cities, as well as Zurich and Tokyo. Augmented reality with the help of arrows over the image from the smartphone camera helps to find the right direction to toilets, rest rooms, taxi ranks, car rentals.
Planned soon is a global, largest indoor Live View expansion to date, adding over 1,000 new airports, train stations and shopping malls in Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Paris, Prague, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei.
Google Maps introduces new Google Maps features for EV drivers with built-in Google Built-in that will provide optimal trip planning based on current traffic, charge level, expected energy consumption, regular and fast charging stations along the route. Also, charging stations are now displayed in search results for places such as a supermarket or entertainment center.
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Regardless of the mode of transport, you can now track your journey directly from the route overview or on the lock screen. Information is available about the time of arrival and the need to perform a maneuver, previously this required unlocking the phone, opening the application and turning on the advanced navigation mode. All of these improvements will become available to Android and iOS users around the world in the coming months. Guaranteed compatibility with Live Activity on iOS 16.1.
This is how artificial intelligence is helping to reimagine the future of Google Maps, making it more detailed, immersive, immersive and user-friendly for people around the world.
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