Google Lens will gain shopping features, AR component in the works
(Android Central)

There are some exciting features planned for Google Lens. Google Lens wasn`t much more than a party trick when it first launched on the Pixel 2 as a part of Google Photos, but now that Google`s visual search service is integrated right within the Google Assistant, it`s quickly become a truly functional tool for finding more information on objects around you in the real world. Artem Russakovskii from Android Police recently reached out to Lens` Engineering Lead, Rajan Patel, on Twitter asking about upcoming features, and Patel actually teased a handful of things to expect for the future of Lens. Starting off with the least exciting of what Patel shared, Google is working on improving recognition of natural world objects, such as flora and fauna, so that Lens can more accurately identify these things and deliver the most precise results possible. This is possible thanks to a new optical character recognition (OCR) model that Patel`s team is working on, and it should result in faster ...