This is how a Google function will change your way of tourism forever

Technology has evolved since man invented it. But the speed of change we are seeing in artificial intelligence is not normal. Things change day by day and there are companies that are fighting in a discovered way for being the reference in A field that is called to be the center of consumer electronics in many countries, artificial intelligence. And in Spain Google has an advantage given the penetration of Android.

With Gemini He has managed to develop not only a substitute for the Google assistant, but a tool that is at chatgpt’s height if not above. And yes, there are functions that are exclusive to the payment version, but this is available in Google One rates of about 20 euros per month, it is not necessary to pay 200 euros a month as it happens with Openai, unless we want a huge amount of cloud storage.

One of the last uses in which we have tested Gemini has been on a trip. Specifically we have used Gemini to interact with what appears on the screen, one of those features limited to the payment version of Google One. With everything, what we have done can also be done with the free version, through images and text, being a slightly longer, but equally viable process. However, mobile owners of the families of Pixel 9 series and Galaxy S25 series They will have it for free.

Ask for information about monuments

Before I could use the option to share a screen with Gemini, I made a trip to Istanbul in which I used Google chatbot to ask for information about certain monuments. The result was good, and I got answers and some curiosities, but I had to ask the photo, write the question, etc. With the new option I just have to aim with the camera and talk aloud.

The result is have a kind of personal guide To which you can not only ask for information, but you can also interrupt, ask that you give you more details about something concrete, etc. In addition, you can also give you historical contest about what you are seeing, which makes the trip a different dimension.

This also applies to works of art if we are, for example, in a museum. We can point to a picture or sculpture and ask for information, and even continue with the visit and point to another asking you to relate the two works, whether or not they are the author.

Translate signals in real time

When we are abroad we have become accustomed to being able to use a translator like Google to be able to talk to strangers, even allowing a kind of real -time translation. But something more common is having to translate public transport signs or shops. For this Gemini allows to show through the camera what we want to translateand we can ask it with natural language.

In addition, when the text translates to us we can continue asking questions. For example, in the case of being on a bus stop, Plet’s ask him for the time it will take the next to arrive, if the system of that city is integrated into Google Mapsclear. Or maybe we can ask if it is viable to go to the place we want to walk, instead of public transport.

Recommendations to eat

Another function of this Gemini Live option is to be able to point to the area where we are with the camera and ask for indications about somewhere to eat, with the criteria we want. Also We can do it by sharing the screen with open mapsbeing this perhaps a better way.

We can talk to him and ask him to be an economic site, or with typical food of the area, or where they admit pets … The amount of filters we can establish is enormous, especially because Google integrates well with Google Maps, which is already de facto the travel app for many. Or at least one of the most important apps when it leaves the hometown.

Tips on what to do in the area

The last function to use is one that is valued little. When we are in a city we do not know, we may be clear about what to see, but sometimes there are changes of plans, and it rains, or we have finished before the account. With Gemini Live We can talk to be able to ask for recommendations about new things to see that they are closeor that they take us on the way to the airport if we have to leave soon …

The important thing is that to Do everything with natural language It is very practical to modify our itinerary. In addition, it can be done in collaboration with other people, since they can speak at the same time several interlocutors with Gemini Live, although it is not able to differentiate between them.

It still remains to improve

Although Gemini Live and His option of sharing screen can become one of the reasons why someone would want to pay for a version of Google One with Iathe truth is that he still has to improve. One of the differences between using Gemini Live and Chatbot is that the latter can do more things, especially related to the extensions and links of other applications.

For example, it would be very useful for me to talk to Gemini Live about something that appears on the screen We could ask him to add it to Google Keep To have the information stored, or what will send an email or a whatsapp To someone with that information that has just given us. Luckily, it seems that Google is already working on it.

The positive part is that Google is improving its assistant very quickly and with functions that until recently seemed like science fiction. The characteristic of being able to share the mobile screen with an AI and talk about what appears was something that marvels at the Google I/or 2024 and we already have it active. Who knows what we can do in one or two years.