- Google has made the Gemini Live screen and free cameras exchange functions for all Android users.
- The version reverses the previous subscriber option.
- The function allows Gemini to respond to the visual entrance in real time from its screen or camera.
In a surprise turn and a reversal of its previous payment plans, Google has announced that the Gemini Live screen and the camera exchange functions are now being implemented for free for all Android users. A subscription or ownership of pixels is not needed, only Gemini Live, accessible to any person with the Gemini application in Android.
This update means that your AI assistant can now see what is on your screen or through your camera lens and react to it in real time. Gemini Live With Screen Sharing allows you to show Gemini a web page, a spreadsheet or a tangled disaster of application configuration and request help. Or you can point out your camera in an object of the real world, such as a product label, a chess board or a confusing Ikea manual, and let Gemini identify and explain what you are seeing.
The characteristic debuted for the first time earlier this month, but only for the advanced GEMINI subscribers and only for certain phones, such as Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25. At that time, Google said that visual capabilities would eventually expand, but even then, only to other subscribers. Apparently, Google had a change of mind, or at least claims to have decided to open access due to what people seem to like the characteristic. Now, it is being implemented in all Android in the coming weeks.
We have been listening to excellent comments about Gemini Live With Camera and Screen Share, so we decided to take it to more people ✨ Artico today and in the coming weeks, we are throwing it to * all users * @android with the Gemini application. Enjoy! PS If you still don’t have the application, … https://t.co/dtsxlzlxniApril 16, 2025
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The idea of the function is to make Gemini more flexible as an assistant. Instead of answering questions that he writes or speaks, he is interpreting the world that surrounds him visually. The movement also coincides with Microsoft announcing that Copilot Vision, its own version of AI Eyes, is now available for free in the Edge browser. That could be a coincidence, although probably only in the way you find your crush outside its class in high school is a coincidence.
But while Microsoft’s co -pilot lives in the browser, Gemini’s advantage is its integration directly into the Android ecosystem. It is not necessary to turn on the edge or download a separate tool. Gemini Live is baked in the same system that already runs its device.
The new ability conforms to many of the other additions and updates that Gemini has added in recent months. The AI wizard now comes with real -time voice chat, a new overlap so that it can summon Gemini in addition to other applications and the inclusion of the long writing tool Deep Research.
Once the new function is live, you will see the option of “Share the screen” or “Use camera” in certain indications of Gemini on Android devices. And because Google is giving this free, sets a new bar. If Gemini can see his screen and camera without loading it for privilege, what happens to the idea of access to the “premium”? The developers are probably being able to heatently discuss what is worth paying the characteristics of the AI and how much to charge, when, at least for now, all these tools become relatively fast.
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