Reality
Google Goggles
Google Goggles is another innovative official application from Google for Android and the HTC Evo. Goggles is a visual search engine. You can take a photo of an object and Google Goggles will attempt to recognize the object and pull up relevant search results related to the object. Goggles also acts as a reality browser by overlaying information about business around you on the camera’s image in real-time. So you can scan your Evo around and the information will shift to pull up the one’s being displayed in your camera only. The algorithm is still being tuned, so results are still a mixed bag.
Various users have reported success at recognizing such diverse objects as a coke can, menus, and book jackets. However others have reportedly found that the app is unable to recognize the Nike swoosh. It works slightly better for relatively complex objects (which means the algorithm can’t confuse it so easily with other objects). The reality browser and the image-based search combine to make this a worthwhile and unique addition to your Evo.