Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, May 11th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough

today. All the headlines from Google's I.O. Key note this afternoon afternoon. The Stable Coin Fiosco has gotten

rapidly worse. More carnage in tech stocks is Apple shifting to USBC for the iPhone at

long last. And pour one out for the iPod, the product and brand that very much

kicked off our modern era of gadgetry. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Google held I.O. It's annual developer conference today with a limited number of folks actually in person in the audience. A quick rundown of some of the bigger announces with sort of a bias towards things consumers might actually see and be interested in.

Google Maps is gaining a new immersive view, a combination of street view and aerial shots for select cities

and will let third-party apps use live views AR, quoting 9 to 5 Google.

Google Maps Immersive View combines picturesque views of a city and its landmarks, suggestions of places to learn about or visit, and views of the insides of some buildings.

You can even see alternate views of certain areas such as at night in bad weather or in busy conditions.

This immersive view will be overlaid with the useful helpful features of maps like busyness

levels and traffic indicators and it's all arriving in Google Maps for phones and devices of all sorts.

The only limitation for now is what cities can be browsed with things kicking off later

this year with Los Angeles, London, New York, San Francisco, and Tokyo, end quote. Google Translate is adding support for 24 additional languages, including regional

dialects from India, South America, and Africa, used by around 300 million people.

What about the main Google product which is

search Google unveiled a multi search near me option that lets users add pictures of

products and then find local retailers and restaurants that may provide them, which, if you think about it, lays the groundwork pretty well for any future AR glasses, quoting Tech Crunch.

With the new near-me multi-search query, you'll be able to find local options related to your current visual and text-based search combination.

For example if you were working on a DIY project and came across a part that you needed to replace you could snap a photo of the part with your phone's camera to identify it and then find a local hardware store that has a replacement in stock

The more interesting addition to multi-search is the capability to search within a scene in the future Google says users will be able to

pan their camera around to learn about multiple objects within that wider scene.

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