Launched in 2017, Google Lens processes 20 billion visual searches a month. Now it will work with video and voice, too.
When Google Lens was introduced in 2017, the search feature accomplished a feat that not too long ago would have seemed like the stuff of science fiction: Point your phone’s camera at an object and Google Lens can identify it, show some context, maybe even let you buy it. It was a new way of searching, one that didn’t involve awkwardly typing out descriptions of things you were seeing in front of you.
While it currently works with video captured in real time, if or when Google expands it to captured videos, entire repositories of videos—whether in a person’s own camera roll or in a gargantuan database like Google—could potentially become taggable and overwhelmingly shoppable. The second consideration is that this Lens feature shares some characteristics with Google’s Project Astra, which is expected to be available later this year.
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