Overview
- Immersive Navigation uses Gemini to analyze Street View and aerial imagery in real time, rendering buildings, terrain, lanes, crossings, signals and signs in a realistic 3D view.
- Ask Maps handles complex natural-language queries inside the app and enables actions such as saving, sharing, booking or starting navigation directly from the conversation.
- Availability now includes Immersive Navigation starting across the United States on iOS and Android, with Ask Maps live on mobile in the U.S. and India and desktop support coming soon.
- Google says responses draw on information from over 300 million places and community input from more than 500 million contributors, with personalization limited to prior Maps searches and saved places.
- Navigation now explains why a route is recommended, presents tradeoffs like traffic versus tolls, and adds arrival details such as entrances, parking and last‑mile walking directions, with expansion to CarPlay, Android Auto and vehicles with Google built‑in planned in the coming months.