Google has come up with a experiment for maintaining social distancing by the smartphone users. Amidst the pandemic times, when every one is suggested to maintain a safer distance among peers, Google has come up with a new AR Project.
AR stands for Augmented Reality which takes the real world live on screen and makes it interactive for the users.
Google Sodar(Social Distancing Radar) will draw a virtual perimeter of radius 2 metres or 6.5 feet across the device user as a center which will help the user to maintain a safer distance from people. A similar feature is seen in Pokemon Go game, a super hype few years back.
The virtual perimeter is superimposed on the images from the live cam and moves with the device. Sodar works through Google-made Chrome browsers on Android smartphones that support augmented reality.
How to use Google Sodar
To use Google Sodar, you need to download two Google apps in the updates version. 1. Google Chrome and 2. Google Play Services. After this, you need to head to sodar.withgoogle.com and then voila! You have your own virtual perimeter of 2 meters across you. Stay Safe.
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