Google lens official release - Nexus 6P General

Hello there everybody
Google lens has been released with the launch of the pixel 2 devices ,and a couple of months later it should up in there google assistant. Unfortunately, the nexus 6p users could celebrate this new feature with the pixel users without much effort of rooting or other methods. Last march, the lens made it to all devices with the nexus 6p but only in google photos. With the wider release that started this month, the nexus 6p/5x now has it in the google assistant without any effort of rooting.
Here is most of the info you will need about the google lens
Lens was announced at Google I/O 2017, and began rolling out to Photos a few weeks ago. If you're not aware, Lens is a machine-learning powered spiritual successor to Google Goggles, as it can identify objects and landmarks in photos. Google said it would eventually arrive in Assistant, and now it looks like the time has come.
Some users are seeing a new Lens button in Google Assistant, and tapping on it opens the camera. From there, you just tap on the object you want to search, and Assistant will try to figure out what it is. It's pretty much the same as Lens in Google Photos, except you don't have to take the picture before-hand.
It can also identify products from its shape or from the barcode, select text from real time, save photos to keep or just remember the picture by simply asking it to do so. It can also identify restaurants using your camera and location to give you information, and it can even identify landmarks.

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Hi,
I have already posted it in another post. I noticed on my Honor View 10 that there is a connection between the Private Space and the Google Assistant. Whenever I have used the private space and then switched back to the normal account, the Assistant will then click out. It was also reproducible on my phone, but I can not say how it is related. Since the soft and hardware of the Huawei and Honor phones are similar, I thought it helps here. I have now deleted the private space and restarted the phone. After I have not used private space after the last reboot, the assistant works since yesterday without problems.
Regards Ralf.
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On chinese roms (model AL00 and Al10 huawei) google assistant voice activition is broken in general. Third party apps do not play well with private space, as it is essentially like a sandbox environment.
FricklerB said:
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Regards Ralf.
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