Google “may bring augmented reality to its camera app”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Google is rumored to be looking at bringing augmented reality to its camera app, VentureBeat said.

If that’s true, the company would leverage technology from Google Goggles, allowing you to see relevant search results like nearby restaurants, transit information, and recommended retailers.

An anonymous source states that the integration would include a new feature “allowing users to outline specific areas of the image” in order to directly target their searches. This would be an improvement on the current iteration of Google Goggles, which only allows you to search whole images, VentureBeat says.

Reports indicate that the technology has also been tested in “wearable computing devices,” suggesting that it “may come to products like Google Glass and possibly even VR (or AR) headsets.”

Google Goggles launched in 2009 as a visual search technology app, but after a few years the company stopped updating it, and it fell by the wayside.