Google’s new AR tool helps you maintain social distancing: How to use

We are required to follow the lockdown guidelines and social distancing norms to stop the spread of the coronavirus. United Nations made an app called 1point5 to help you achieve a distance of 1.5 metres from your fellow human beings. However, the app requires people around to have Bluetooth turned on to notify you if they enter your vicinity.

Google has now jumped in to help users maintain social distancing with its new augmented reality tool Sodar. Neither does Sodar require you to install any kind of app nor does it need the people around you to have their phone on them.

The AR tool uses WebXR to visualise a two-meter radius ring around you to help you maintain social distancing. The phone uses augmented reality to map the area around you superimposing the virtual ring on the view from your camera.