Google Maps' Live View is an augmented reality (AR) feature that overlays directions directly onto your phone's camera feed. Instead of interpreting an abstract line on a flat map ...

One of Google's coolest apps, by far, has yet to see the light of day for most users. I'm talking about Maps' live AR walking directions-- now known as Live View -- that shows you via a Pokémon-like ...

Earlier this year Google launched a beta of an augmented reality walking directions feature called “Live View.” Live View allows users to use Google Maps and their smartphone’s camera to see real-time ...

The perfect scenario for Google’s new Visual Position System, or VPS, is one you’ve probably been in already: Emerging from a subway station in a strange city. You’ve got your route planned out on ...

Two separate discoveries indicate that Google is working on power-saving features for Android that might make it possible to run full-screen apps with reduced power consumption. Android Authority's ...

Google Maps is great for getting directions while driving and using public transport, but in the last year it has been rolling out more features focused on traveling by foot as well. Recently, the ...

Connect your iPhone's Google Maps app to your car via CarPlay, Bluetooth, and USB. Once you're done driving, Google Maps will ...

It was a cold, dark night. Well, actually, it was a cold, dark morning. This, it seems, will form a part of the claim that Lauren Rosenberg is offering against a the driver of a car that hit her while ...

I didn’t expect Google to go soaring out of the gate soon soon after the company teased its augmented reality ambitions for Google Maps at yesterday’s I/O 2019 keynote, but here we go. Starting today, ...

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Google is launching a beta of its augmented reality walking directions feature for Google Maps, with a broader launch that will be available to all iOS and Android devices that have system-level ...

Augmented reality walking directions in Google Maps got a step closer today with news that a beta version of the AR feature will be rolling out to users of the app over the next couple of weeks (via ...