Google Lens Gets Real-Time Object Recognition To Samsung Galaxy S9, S8, and Note 8

Google Lens was first teased at Google's I/O conference in 2017 and later debuted exclusively on the Pixel 2 smartphones at the time of their launch. To the delight of Android users, at MWC 2018 Google announced that it volition unveil the Lens app to other smartphones via Google Photos and Google Assistant. While the characteristic was added to Photos app last week itself, we now have the beginning bunch of smartphones which accept received the update to enable camera-based Google Lens.

Google Lens is now available, as per Droid Life, on Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, Galaxy S9, and Annotation 8. This means that you tin can head over to Google Banana and tap on the Google Lens icon in the bottom right. This will fire upwards a camera-like viewfinder assuasive you to tap on objects which you want to know more about. Google Lens uses machine learning to recognize objects within images and to search information. It provides relevant suggestions related to the identified objects and prompts actions like translating something or saving a search.

Google Lens on Samsung Galaxy S9, S8, and Note 8 — Courtesy: Droid-Life

Notably, the included devices already have a similar program called Bixby Vision which was introduced last yr merely hasn't been picked upwardly actually well. The Google Lens integration in the Google Photos app is different in the style information technology performs. Instead of recognizing objects in existent-time, the Photos version identifies objects from the already captured images which are saved in the app.

So, if you accept any of these devices, y'all can endeavor engaging with the objects around yous. Information technology really comes in handy when you're out exploring an uncharted office of the city, identifying plants and birds, or while visiting sites of interests such as monuments or museums. It can also be used to read barcodes and saving contacts past scanning business concern cards.

In case you haven't received the update nevertheless and are eager to endeavor the new feature out, y'all can enroll yourself in beta testing for the Google and Banana apps.