At Google I/O 2018, Aparna Chennapragada, VP of Product for AR and VR, gave updates about Google Lens and Google Map.
Google Lens, which before today existed only within Google Assistant, is also moving beyond just the Assistant, camera, and Google Photos app. It’s also helping power new features in adjacent products like Google Maps.
Google Lens is effectively Google’s engine for seeing, understanding, and augmenting the real world.
The goal is to give users context about their environments and any and all objects within those environments.
Google announced that Lens now works in real time and can parse text as it appears in the real world.
News Source: https://blog.google/products/google-vr/google-lens-real-time-answers-questions-about-world-around-you/
