Google Sodar uses augmented reality to help enforce social distancing

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Social distancing is an effective way of reducing the spread of COVID-19. Though more of a preventive measure than a curative one, it has been adopted almost universally across the world. With this in mind, Google has released a web app that can aid people in enforcing the paradigm.

Sodar is a part of 'Experiments with Google' and it leverages augmented reality (AR) to visualize social distancing guidelines in your environment by displaying a virtual arc around you with a certain radius. The demo in the tweet below shows a radius of two meters, which is around the recommended safe distance of six feet.