Google IO 2019’s best exhibit wasn’t even there

We got an update on Google’s plans for augmented reality during Google IO 2019, and it looks like a lot of fun and games – with some promising advancements for even casual Google product users.

That includes folks who only use Google search. During the keynote, a presenter showed how AR will be added to search results: go scrounging for info on sharks, and you’ll be able to click a button to look into a lite camera app and place a 3D model of the shark in real life, as if to compare size. Another example showed a modeled skeleton-and-muscle arm flexing and relaxing – something far easier to see from different angles in AR than in a simple image.

After the keynote, we moseyed over to one of the Google IO 2019 sandboxes filled with different fun AR exhibits – all showing off different fun applications of AR tech that, strictly speaking, wasn’t there at all.

Click through the gallery to see them all!