https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/17/google-lens-on-pixel-2-still-has-a-long-way-to-go/

The reveal of Google Lens at I/O was one of the most exciting moments of the developer conference, with the tool promising to be a new type of visual browser identifying the world around users and giving them easy access to a web of information and context.

I’ve gotten to take a look at a beta of Lens on the Pixel 2 XL and it’s clear that we’re a long way from realizing its true utility. That’s perfectly fine; there are very rarely massive leaps in tech capability, and computer vision-powered identification has always struggled in conditions that are less than ideal. The issue is that Google is selling a computer vision tool without a ton of consumer use as a fairly significant selling point of its flagship device.