Google Maps uses augmented reality to display landmarks and help direct...

Google is preparing to add some prominent new features to Live View soon, with the augmented reality mode for Google Maps, which allows you to raise your phone and see visual directions on the real world, as it was captured by the camera lens on your mobile phone, and perhaps the biggest addition is the ability to see signals Visibility against landmarks in your field of vision, as well as information about how far a landmark might be and walking directions there.

According to the verge, Mirko Ranieri, Product Manager for Google Maps, explains: “These attractions can include famous places, such as the Empire State Building in New York, the Pantheon Building in Rome, and easily identifiable places, such as local parks and neighborhoods. Attractions. ”

This feature will launch directly on Android and iOS soon, Google says, with support for 25 cities, including Berlin, London, New York, Rome, San Francisco and Tokyo.

Another feature coming to Live View is the ability to directly enter mode from transportation directions, so you can easily see how to be directed when you leave a subway station and find yourself at a busy and confusing intersection.

Google also has several other additions to Live View, including location sharing, to see the superimposed distance from the friend who shared his location on Google Maps and directions to it, and more accurate pins so that prominent streets, landmarks, and other places that include changes appear more accurately in Live View when Places are designated as destinations.

Google says that these two features, along with Live View on the Transport tab, will arrive in the coming weeks.