Google’s latest experiment encourages social distancing through AR

Google’s latest experiment encourages social distancing through AR

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/29/googles-latest-experiment-encourages-social-distancing-through-ar/

Several months into this pandemic, you can no doubt already eyeball six feet/two meters with the best of them. But if you’re still having trouble — and happen to have an Android device handy — Google’s got you covered, I guess.

The latest project out of the company’s Experiments With Google collection, Sodar is a simple browser-based app that uses WebXR to offer a mobile augmented reality social distance. Visiting the site in Chrome on an Android handset will bring up the app. From there you’ll need to point your camera at the ground and move it around as the device recognizes the plane with a matrix of dots.