Searching with Lens is now as simple as pointing and shooting. | Image: Google
Google’s adding a nifty new feature to Lens, its visual search tool: you can now search by shooting a video. Previously, Lens only captured still images, but now you can use both video and audio to ask your question. Google imagines you might use it to ask about a problem you’re having with your car or to get more information about a product you see. It’s also yet another way AI is making its way into Google products — the company announced the new feature at its I/O developer conference, where the story of the year is very much “AI in everything.”
Video is an inherently multimodal input, and multimodal search is a big deal for Google right now. With a still image, Lens has to guess what you’re asking about the photo or prompt you again…
