The ultimate model of Google’s Measure app. Measure a door! Measure a desk! Measure stuff. [credit: Google ]
One other day, one other lifeless Google product. This time, the augmented actuality app “Measure” is being put out to pasture.
As first noticed by Android Police, the Android app is not accessible by way of a Play Retailer search, and a direct hyperlink to the itemizing reveals a brand new message within the description: “This app is not supported and won’t be up to date. Customers who beforehand put in this app can proceed to apply it to appropriate units.”
Measure was fairly neat. The app used a smartphone to measure real-life objects by way of the magic of augmented actuality. AR tracks real-life objects as a way to precisely place digital objects in a digicam feed, and if the monitoring is sweet sufficient, an app can flip that knowledge into a fairly good estimate of distance. Measure was by no means adequate for functions like detailed carpentry work—we discovered that brief measurements have been correct to inside half an inch, and longer measurements might be off by a number of inches—however the perfect measuring tape is the one you will have with you. Plus, the app labored nice should you needed to measure one thing giant, like a phone pole, which might be fairly troublesome with a tape measure.
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