Google Lens is about to get a complete lot of latest options within the days to come back. This was revealed lately by Stanford Professor and engineering lead for Google Lens, Rajan Patel. Replying to a tweet from famend tech journalist, Artem Russakovskii, Patel stated that purchasing is without doubt one of the new options anticipated to come back to the platform within the close to future. There may also be ‘enhancements’ in ‘natural world’, which could imply improved recognition of vegetation and animals as soon as the updates are rolled out.
Whereas a lot of the specifics proceed to stay underneath the wraps, for now, Patel did let it slip {that a} future replace may also deliver “experimental AR experiences” to Google Lens. With AR Stickers getting a combined response from the Pixel customers, the search large will likely be hoping that the ‘AR experiences’ which can be additionally more likely to be constructed on high of ARCore, will get a greater response from the Android neighborhood. Lest we neglect, there’s additionally a brand new OCR (optical character recognition) mannequin that will likely be “superb”, as you’ll be able to see from the tweet embedded under.
Purchasing (attire, house items, and so forth) within the works. Pure world (natural world) enhancements coming. Workforce simply despatched me an incredible new OCR mannequin. Experimental AR experiences coming as effectively…
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) December 9, 2017
Google Lens arrived on the Pixel telephones earlier this yr, but it surely’s form of like Animojis on the iPhone X if we’re being fully sincere: a cool function to have in your handset, however pretty restricted by way of usefulness. Certain, it’s enjoyable for the primary few days, however as soon as the novelty issue wears off, you’re unlikely to make use of it too typically. It is going to be attention-grabbing to see how a lot the brand new updates will change all that, however Pixel customers will likely be hoping that there’s one thing particular within the works at Google.
In the meantime, should you’re not utilizing a Pixel handset and are upset about not having the ability to use Google Lens, you’ll be able to check out our detailed tutorial about the right way to activate the function in non-Pixel units (Google Images solely). Do be aware that this technique requires root entry, however should you’re rocking a non-rooted gadget, you’ll be able to nonetheless get (considerably) related performance from a bunch of Google Lens various apps that you could obtain at no cost from the Play Retailer.
