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Google I/O is ostensibly a developer conference, but the Mountain View company always manages to sneak in a product announcement or two. This morning during the kickoff keynote, Google announced that ...

Google just reinvented how we navigate our way around unfamiliar places. It's called Google Maps AR and it's solves all sorts of problems we currently experience when travelling with a GPS. You key in ...

Today we've got a bit of a demo of Google Maps AR through a friend of ours who happens to be a Google Maps Local Guides level 5+ user. That's the level at which Google Maps now allows the augmented ...

Google Maps is finally getting a previously teased augmented reality upgrade. In May, Google announced plans to add an AR navigation feature to its Maps app. Nine months later, the feature is now ...

Google Maps is one of the most dependable navigation apps available, and a must-have on all smartphones, even if they ship with a different default maps app. Google has been adding a bunch of nifty ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last year, U.K.-based Scape showed off a city-scale AR mapping solution ...

Google today announced it’s starting a pilot program that will soon allow select partners to create AR content and display it within Google Maps. While it seems like an important step for Google on ...

At last year’s annual developer conference, Google announced that it would add a cool new AR navigation feature to its Maps platform especially aimed at people commuting often by walk in unknown ...

Since the game launched in the summer of 2016, Pokemon GO developer Niantic has made much of an effort to improve the game's map and the way that it depicts the real world. For example, around five ...

One of the more bizarre, yet intriguing, demos from last year’s Google I/O is now available for real users. AR walking directions in Google Maps is finally rolling out to Pixel users today. Augmented ...

While real-time Google Lens was the big augmented reality announcement at I/O 2018, another exciting in-development feature was teased. Google Maps is working to leverage the camera to overlay walking ...