At Google I/O 2025, the corporate introduced that Gemini Stay Digicam and Display Sharing is rolling out to iPhone beginning immediately. Which means you can use your cellphone’s digicam to reside stream a feed to Gemini, and have a dialog about with the AI agent about what it sees. This function has been accessible on Android for a while, nevertheless it’s coming to iPhone for the primary time beginning immediately.
This might be helpful for a lot of issues, akin to displaying Gemini a video of one thing in your neighborhood and asking it to establish the merchandise. In idea, you may ask it to establish vehicles, bushes, or vital landmarks in your neighborhood, or ask it common information questions on historic landmarks when you’re on vacation. Sadly although, Google selected an unbelievably cringey video to reveal what the Gemini Stay Digicam can do.
It featured an individual being intentionally obtuse and asking exceptionally…dumb…inquiries to the AI, presumably to reveal that Gemini is not an entire fool (or, as Google stated, that it isn’t afraid to let you know if you’re improper). They pointed the digicam at a rubbish truck whereas calling it a “convertible,” however Gemini was capable of make clear that it was certainly, a rubbish truck. They repeated the identical routine by calling a light-weight pole a “tall skinny constructing” and a shadow “somebody following” them. Should you had been to solely go by the demo to determine the extent of Gemini Stay’s Digicam Sharing capabilities, it might be fairly arduous to know the way it holds as much as stress testing.
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Fortuitously, there are a lot better examples of what you are able to do with Gemini Stay Digicam on the Android weblog. You’ll be able to ask Gemini Stay for recommendation on a colour palette to your residence, reward concepts, and far more. So long as the AI does not hallucinate, this might a genuinely great tool, because it additionally works with display sharing, too. Simply… do not ask it in case your shadow is an actual particular person.
