Google Maps ‘Immersive View’, Android 13 Beta 2, and Everything Else Announced at Google I/O 2022

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Maps ‘Immersive View’, Android 13 Beta 2, and Everything Else Announced at

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I/O 2022

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Maps is getting an all-new experience called ‘immersive view’, to deliver an enhanced digital model of buildings and streets around the world. The new mode uses advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver a rich viewing experience to users,

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said while announcing the new feature at its I/O 2022 consumer keynote on Wednesday.

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also announced the second beta of Android 13, its upcoming operating system. The company also announced updates coming to

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Workspace including automated transcriptions, portrait light, and portrait restore on

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Meet. Additionally, there were announcements related to

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Assistant,

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, skin tone representation, and others that you will find in detail here.

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Maps updates

With the ‘immersive view’,

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Maps help provide the rich view of a neighborhood, landmark, restaurant, or a popular venue you search. It fuses together billions of Street View and aerial images alongside advances in computer vision and AI to provide the rich, digital model of virtual maps, the company said.

“Whether you’re traveling somewhere new or scoping out hidden local gems, immersive view will help you make the most informed decisions before you go,”

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In addition to the immersive experience, the new view includes the time slider that users can use to even check out what the area looks like at different times of day and in various weather conditions. Users can also glide down to street level to look at nearby restaurants and see information such as live busyness and nearby traffic.

‘Immersive view’ uses

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Cloud to offer the digital view to users. So, it is device agnostic and can work with any phone and device,

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said. The experience has initially started rolling out in Los Angeles, London, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo.

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Maps is also expanding eco-friendly routing to more places including Europe. It was launched in the US and Canada in the recent past and has been used by people to travel 86 billion miles, saving over an estimated half a million metric tons of carbon emissions,

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claimed.

Further,

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is making its Live View available to developers through the new ARCore Geospatial API. It brings augmented reality (AR) to display arrows and directions on top of real-world viewing to help users navigate indoor areas such as airports, malls, and train stations.

Android 13 beta 2 release

Among other announcements,

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at the I/O 2022 consumer keynote announced the release of Android 13 beta 2. The update will

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over the first beta release that debuted for select Pixel devices last month.

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also announced features including a unified Security & Privacy settings page, new media control featuring album’s artwork, and a new photo picture that lets users to select the exact photos and videos that they want to grant access to. Android 13 will also include optimisations for tablets, including better multitasking capabilities and features including an updated taskbar with the ability to switch the single tablet view into a split screen.

Android 13 beta 2 has been released
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Meet updates

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Meet is getting the portrait restore that uses

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AI to help improve video quality and add enhancements even if a user is sitting in a dimly lit room and using an old webcam or have a poor Wi-Fi connectivity.

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said that the feature can help enhance video automatically.

In addition to the portrait restore feature,

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Meet is getting portrait light that is claimed to use machine learning to simulate studio-quality lighting in video feed. Users can also adjust the lighting position and brightness.

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Meet is also getting de-reverberation that helps filter out echos in spaces with hard surfaces using machine learning. The company

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that the feature helps you sound “like you’re in a mic-ed up conference room…even if you’re in your basement.”

Additionally,

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Meet is getting live sharing to sync content being shared in a virtual call and allow participants to control the media. Developers can also use live sharing APIs to integrate Meet into their apps.

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is also

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automated transcription later this year and meeting summarisation next year to enhance conversations on

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Meet.

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Workspace updates

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Workspace is getting

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Meet’s automated transcriptions to help users transcribe conversations directly in their documents.

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is also extending auto-summaries to Spaces to provide a digest of long conversations. Auto-summaries were introduced on

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Docs earlier this year.

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Workspace is getting new updates soon
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Further,

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is adding security protections that were a part of Gmail to

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Slides, Docs, and Sheets. The company claimed that these protections will help users prevent from opening documents containing phishing links and malware using automatic alerts.

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Assistant updates

At the I/O 2022 consumer keynote,

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Look and Talk that is rolling out to in the US on Nest Hub Max to help people access

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Assistant without saying the “OK

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” or “Hey

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” hotword. Users will just need to look at the screen and then ask for what they need. The feature uses Face Match and Voice Match features based on machine learning and AI algorithms to recognise users and quickly enable voice interactions.

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said that the feature will be available as an opt-in offering.

Once enabled, you can use Look and Talk to interact with

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Assistant by just looking at the screen of your Nest Hub Max.

“Video from these interactions is processed entirely on-device, so it isn’t shared with

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or anyone else,” the company said.

 

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also noted that the feature work across a range of skin tones and for people with diverse backgrounds.

In addition to the Look and Talk feature,

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is expanding quick phrases to Nest Hub Max to let users skip saying “Hey

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” for their most common daily tasks. This means that you will be able to turn on the lights in your room by saying, “Turn on the living room lights,” without saying the hotword first.

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Assistant is also getting new speech and language models that can help understand the nuances of human speech — like when someone is pausing, but not finished speaking, the company said.

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updates

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at the I/O keynote announced that it is bringing auto-translated captions on

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to mobile users to help users view video captions in as many as 16 languages.

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is also bringing auto-translated captions to all Ukrainian

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content next month.

Skin tone updates

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is releasing a new skin tone scale called the Monk Skin Tone (MST) Scale based on the research conducted by Harvard professor and sociologist Dr. Ellis Monk. This will help bring more inclusive of the spectrum of skin tones, the company

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The new 10-shade skin tone scale will be integrated within various

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products over the coming months.

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is also releasing the scale openly to allow others in the tech industry to incorporate a vast range of skin tones into their experiences.

 

One of the key

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products that will start using the MST Scale will be

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Search. It will start showing users an option to help users further refine results by skin tone. Creators, brands and publishers will also be able to use an inclusive schema to label their content with attributes like skin tone, hair colour and hair texture.

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Photos will also use the MST Scale to allow users to enhance their photos using a new set of Real Tone filters. These filters will be rolling out on

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Photos across Android, iOS, and the Web in the coming weeks.

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