{"id":13609,"date":"2020-10-14T07:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13609"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T18:20:27","slug":"ar-in-google-maps-can-point-you-to-your-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/ar-in-google-maps-can-point-you-to-your-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"AR in Google Maps can point you to your friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is one of the far-flung projects I&#8217;ve been glad to help support. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/new-sense-direction-live-view\/\">New features<\/a> (like this one that&#8217;s available on Pixel, and coming soon to iOS &amp; Android):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When a friend has chosen to share their location with you, you can easily tap on their icon and then on Live View to see where and how far away they are\u2013with overlaid arrows and directions that help you\u00a0 know where to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/original_images\/Live_View_Location_Sharing.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also getting smarter about recognizing landmarks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Soon, you\u2019ll also be able to see nearby landmarks so you can quickly and easily orient yourself and understand your surroundings. Live View will show you how far away certain landmarks are from you and what direction you need to go to get there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/original_images\/Landmarks_Live_View.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the far-flung projects I&#8217;ve been glad to help support. New features (like this one that&#8217;s available on Pixel, and coming soon to iOS &amp; Android): When a friend has chosen to share their location with you, you can easily tap on their icon and then on Live View to see where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13611,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13609\/revisions\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}