What is the Sodar App? Google develops app to ensure social distancing

During this time of pandemic, world is trying its best to contain virus. Social distancing, masks, sanitizers and more have become weapons to prevent oneself from getting affected. While world is changing, many applications and software have emerged that helps a user to protect mselves from going to places where a COVID-19 patient must have visited. However, re was app that could help a user understand if someone is coming closer than pandemic guidelines recommend until Google launched its new Sodar App.

What is Sodar App?

Google-developed Sodar app has w enabled all smartphone users to have a new way to let mselves kw if a person is closer than stated distance from one ar. This tool is available from this week and uses Android smartphone cameras to put users of application in centre of a circle which as a rius of about two meters, or 6.5 feet. If any nearby person comes inside circumference of circle, user gets tified. interface is simple and is similar to smartphone game PokemonGo which uses perimeter augmented reality techlogy.

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se circular perimeters move around with users while smartphone remains centre of it. users of Sodar app get a visual warning when y are within potentially hazardous rius. Google-developed application works Google Chrome browser on Android smartphones that support augmented reality, according to reports. website of Google Sodar website stated that this experiment uses WebXR to visualise 2-metre social-distancing guidelines in your environment.

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Apart from this, Indian users are using reportedly world's most downloed healthcare app, Aarogya Setu. Government health app was officially launched by Ministry of Electronics and Information Techlogy (MeitY), Government of India. app is a location-based Coronavirus tracker app that allows user to understand if y have come in contact with any COVID-19 positive patient. application t only provides COVID updates but also includes an interactive form that allows everyone to check mselves for COVID symptoms, and guides m to see a doctor if needed. Using Aarogya Setu and Sodar app will help users to maintain social distancing rms and keep mselves safe at same time.

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