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Here is how AI is enabling immersive 3D visualization of future routes

Google Maps will have an Immersive View feature, as teased at the company's I/O conference last spring. It incorporates AI technology to allow users to travel in a dynamic 3D environment, making it easier for them to find their way while they are in the actual location.

Google looks to be counting on leveraging AI to produce a high-definition depiction of an itinerary, so you may discover it digitally before you fly, to maintain a lead over competitors like TomTom and Apple.

AI combines billions of aerial pictures and Street View photographs to produce this view. As a consequence, you may project yourself anywhere in a dozen major cities using a dynamic 3D model.

Aside from the visual element, the visualization may be used to locate a variety of practical information, such as the availability of bicycle lanes, walkways, or parking lots once you've arrived at your location.

Select the Immersive View preview for a bicycle trip, for example, and you'll see your route from start to end, enriched with a wealth of relevant information such as simulated traffic or weather conditions along the way, all to help you plan for your travel.

Other forthcoming features were also revealed by Google. In the United States, for example, it will soon be possible to determine whether carpool lanes are available along your journey, allowing you to choose this form of transportation if necessary. In Europe, AI-powered speed limit information will be expanded to around 20 nations, ensuring that you always know how fast to drive even when it is impossible to see speed limit signs on the road.

Google, like many other big names in technology, is all in when it comes to introducing new AI-powered products. In addition to Maps, Photos users will benefit, but only on the new Pixel 8s for the time being. This new Magic Editor experience allows you to radically alter photographs by eliminating certain aspects or reconstructing specific full areas that were not caught in the original shot.

Bard, the company's generative AI chatbot, is also being improved and will soon be able to begin responding as you finish crafting your prompt.