GoogleGoogle has just announced some small new features for Lens, its applicationapplication image recognition boosted withartificial intelligenceartificial intelligence. Although this functionality already existed long before the arrival of ChatGPTChatGPT and other new AI, Lens has evolved very little recently.
However, Lens will now be able to understand the questions stated orally, and analyze the content of videos using an optimized version of Gemini. Now you just need to point the camera at something you want to know more about and record a video while asking a question. According to Google, this makes it possible, for example, to obtain information to repair an object without knowing the technical terms, simply by showing the problem to the AI.
A function still experimental
To ask questions in Lens, you must open the Google application on AndroidAndroid or iOSiOS and press theiconicon of the camera, then hold the shutter button and say your question. Lens will record a video then analyze it with Gemini. Although fast, this system is not in real time, like the new features announced for Visual Intelligence fromAppleApple or Copilot voice chat. However, this allows Google to get ahead of the competition.
Video search with Lens is currently only available on an experimental basis and only in English. To access it, you must register for the “ AI Overiews and more » in Google Labs.
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