Google is making its powerful Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing feature accessible to more smartphone users, and in exciting new forms.
At its big I/O event, Google announced that it was expanding the ability to share what’s on your phone’s camera viewfinder with its Gemini AI tool.
From today, Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing is available on the iOS Gemini app for free. It had already been available to Android users for about a month, having debuted on Pixel 9 and Galaxy S25 devices.
Search Live on AI Mode
Gemini Live is also coming to Google Search through Google’s new AI Mode. Search Live, as it’s being dubbed, will let you point your phone’s camera at something and receive real time interactive results about it.
An example was provided of a student pointing their camera at a project making a bridge out of lolly pop sticks, and asking how to make it stronger. Gemini then made practical and accurate recommendations in a suitably conversational manner.
When made available later this summer, you’ll be able to tap a new ‘Live’ icon in AI Mode and Google Lens to access this live search feature. Then you can simply converse with your phone to ask for contextual information.
Google’s Search live will be made available to Google Labs users first through a beta version.
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Google has had a busy Google I/O so far, showcasing a youthful new look for Android 16 (which not everyone on the team is a fan of), a renewed push into smart glasses, and some impressively powerful real time translation features, to mention just a few.
The company is even threatening to fix email and make it pleasant to use. Is there nothing that AI can’t do?
