- A new Google Maps feature has been viewed to Gemini Live
- It would retrieve location information from Google Maps
- We are not sure when the feature may go live for everyone
Google continues to build new features on top of its Gemini Live experience – where you can chat naturally with AI and show the world around you through your phone’s camera – and it looks like a useful Google Maps upgrade is on the way.
The team at Android Authority has seen code hidden in the latest Google app for Android, which allows you to overlay Google Maps information on top of the camera witing so you get more details of what you are looking at.
So, for example, you can see the name of a restaurant and its Google Maps assessment appears if your phone’s camera looks down a street. It sounds like the Google Lens Augmented Reality (AR) feature already available in the Google Maps app.
Currently you can already use Gemini Live to point your camera in places in front of you, whether they are landmarks or businesses and ask questions about them. When this new feature arrives, you get Google Maps data added as well.
Smarter device
The Android Authority team has managed to get the feature started and it looks pretty basic at the moment. You can also get the Google Maps information up in sound mode, but you need to be specific about the places you want the details of.
Of course, this kind of AR-enabled Overlay would be useful for smart glasses: Imagine being able to get a Google MAPS infocort right in your line of vision. We can see a new Samsung-made pair of smart specifications that arrive by the end of the month.
It also builds at the top of the new visual guidance feature for Gemini Live, which Google demonstrated at the Pixel 10 launch event, which highlights specific objects in the camera ward – such as buttons, parking spaces, tools or something else that is useful.
There is no indication of when this feature may roll out to the masses, but given the necessary code is already in place – and that Google has been eager to push AI features as fast as possible – it shouldn’t go too long before we all see it.
