Google will soon be adding interesting new features to its Fit app for its Pixel smartphones. You can measure your heart rate by placing a finger on the rear camera, which reminds us of a fad from many years ago in the Android world.
It works by detecting color change as blood moves through your fingertip. On the other hand, measure your breathing rate with the selfie camera, where you position yourself within a frame and then just breathe.
The software will monitor the rise and fall of your chest and derive the rate from there. A Google Health product manager explains that doctors calculate a patient’s breathing rate in the same way, and that the company’s machine learning technique tries to track it.
“A lot of people, especially right now in backward economic classes, don’t have things like portable items, but will still benefit from the ability to track their breathing rate, heart rate, and so on,” the Google premier said. .
According to Google’s internal studies, the breathing rate within one breath per minute is accurate, for people with and without health conditions. The heart rate measurements were within 2% accurate. The features have been tested on people with a variety of skin tones and have the same accuracy.
It may reach non-Pixel phones in the future, but Google wants to investigate first how well it will work on other devices.
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