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Data Dive: Google Lens Recognizes 15 Billion Products

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B uried deep in Google’s recent Search On 2020 event was a notable nugget. The company’s visual search tool, Google Lens, now recognizes 15 billion products. In this sense, it’s telling that Google phrased this announcement as recognizing 15 billion products , rather than objects. Who Makes that Dress?

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Data Dive: How is AR Boosting eCommerce?

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Visual search, a la Google Lens , meanwhile lets users identify items with their smartphone camera as a shopping launchpad. The real proof is in the figures and performance data. Now it’s time to revisit this exercise with the latest data. Google Swirl is a good example of both. New Meaning. So there you have it.

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Google Confirms Android XR Allows Passthrough Camera Access: an Important Tool for MR Devs

Road to VR

Now, Google has confirmed that Android XR includes access to passthrough cameras, letting developers fine tune their mixed reality experiences from the get-go. On the other hand, Google confirmed Android XR app devs can make use of its various APIs, including Camera2 and CameraX.

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Android XR will allow camera access like on the phone

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Passthrough camera access is a hot topic in the XR community right now and while the positions of Meta, Apple, and Pico are known, everyone is wondering what Google will do with Android XR. But what about Google and Android XR? These apps generate the stream based on user tracking data from OpenXR APIs, e.g. head, hand, eye, face.

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Data Dive: Google Lens is Used 3B Times Per Month

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A s you may have heard, Apple recently launched 3D urban navigation — its answer to Google Live view. Not to be outdone, Google fired back with an update of its own: better landmark detection in Google Lens. But buried in that announcement was a notable nugget: Google Lens is used 3 billion times per month.

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Google Reportedly Working On Its Own Mixed Reality Glasses

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According to The Verge , Google is currently in development of its own AR device capable of blending virtual graphics over the real world, citing “two people familiar with the project.” The original Google Glass / Image Credit: Robert Couto Photography. Image Credit: Google Inc.

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Despite Years of Reports to the Contrary, PC VR Just Won’t Die—In fact, It’s Growing

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The XR landscape has changed significantly over the last five years with the flourishing of standalone headsets and new entrants like Apple and (soon) Google. Oh and that Google would follow quickly behind with a complete Android XR operating system underpinning a flagship headset made by Samsung.

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