Google Lens is an application integrated into the search app that allows you to recognize buildings, animals, perform translations on the fly, and will also soon solve math exercises using the camera and artificial intelligence. Not only that: Google Lens is about to change its interface for one very similar to that of Google’s camera.
Few Google services offer as much help as Lens, a suite of software that makes use of augmented reality and artificial intelligence to recognize everything around us. Lens is very handy for translating poster texts or copying them for later transcription, for example also for reading QR codes or identifying dishes on a menu. And Google is going to introduce more options apart from an aesthetic change for the application: it will be simpler, minimalist and more comfortable to use.
Google Lens introduces tabbed browsing
The app, built into the Google search app, will move from the huge round buttons to a lower navigation menu with rounded corner tabs. As can be seen in the captures that 9to5Google has achieved, the future appearance of Lens is very similar to the interface that Google’s camera presents. And there is a detail that aims to facilitate the use of a function that until now was somewhat uncomfortable to press: loading images from the gallery. Google changes the upload icon to the bottom, just to the left of the capture button with the camera.
In addition to the interface, Google Lens paves the way to the incorporation of the ‘Homework’ functionality, a tool that allows solving mathematical problems, and other questions in the educational field, just by taking a photograph. This supplement will be of great help to all students since they will not have to download an application for homework; with the advantage that Lens not only solves, it also explains how the resolution has been reached.
The last addition to the recognition app is ‘Places’, a function that details all the businesses that have their domicile in a building just by pointing the camera at that building. Companies, shops, hours, phones and even user ratings – all just by opening Google Lens.
The interface and other news are available in the latest version of the Google search app, but have not yet been activated: it is expected that they will gradually reach all smartphones. Google will activate them from the server-side and without you having to update the application.