



Google is also making it easier than ever to check that you're still going in the right direction by bringing Glanceable Directions to route overviews and lock screens. Meanwhile, Google is expanding Indoor Live View to 1,000 new airports, train stations, and malls.

Search with Live View, the tool that allows you to use to navigate by holding up your phone and seeing information about surrounding businesses and landmarks immediately around you, will be available in new European locations in the coming months, including Barcelona, Madrid and Dublin. The company is also bringing some existing map features to new cities. It's one of several features helping Google continue to keep its mapping tools competitive in a field where Apple and others are snapping at its heels. Using advanced computer vision, the company has fused together billions of Street View and aerial images, before using a technology called neural radiance fields to transform them into richly detailed 3D representations. Google said that more cities will be available in the coming months, including Florence, Venice, Amsterdam and Dublin.Īlong with improved language and search tools, Immersive View is one of the many features to emerge from Google's heavy investment in AI. Starting on Wednesday, you can use Immersive View to explore London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. It didn't quite make that deadline, but the wait is now over and Immersive View is now available for five cities across three continents. When the company first announced Immersive View last year at its I/O developer conference, it said the feature would be available in late 2022. Google's Immersive View takes Street View to the next level, allowing you to soar through 3D renderings of cities at different times of the day and in different weather conditions so you can experience landmarks and neighborhoods as though you're actually there. The Google Maps update we've been waiting for is finally here.
