Indoor Live View is a Google maps feature that displays graphics like arrows, directions, and icons on your smartphone’s screen over a camera view of the world around you.
For example, it can be used to locate a store in a shopping mall or a restroom at an airport.
The functionality is more immersive than Google Maps’ current indoor maps, and it builds on a popular city-street navigation feature that debuted in 2019.
It’s available in some malls in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Long Island, Seattle, and Newark, New Jersey for Android and iOS users. In the coming months, it will be accessible in a small number of airports, malls, and transit stations in Tokyo and Zurich, according to Google.
Live View is powered by artificial intelligence and Google’s huge Street View image library.
Machine learning is used by Google Maps to decide which information are likely to be the same and which should be ignored.
The indoor version of Live View, according to Google, takes into account the user’s altitude as well as the location of objects inside a building.
Once the app has a clear understanding of your location, it will overlay virtual images to help you navigate to your destination.
Other features shown off by Google Maps that will be available in the coming months include the ability to check the weather or air quality when planning a trip inside the app.
Later this year, the app will automatically display to users the most environmentally friendly driving route if a route that uses less fuel is expected to be around as fast as another.
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