Smartphone tool helps users keep social distance

A Pixel smartphone sets a 2-meter (6.5 foot) perimeter for safe social distance as Scott Burns crosses the living room of his home in the Silicon Valley city of Santa Cruz. Android smartphone users on May 29 had a new way to keep their distance from others – a tool that lets them know when people are getting closer than pandemic guidelines recommend. — AFP

Smartphone users have a new way to keep their distance – a tool that lets them know when people are getting closer than pandemic guidelines recommend.

The Google-developed Sodar tool available this week taps into Android smartphone cameras to put users in the center of a white circle with a radius of about two meters, or 6.5 feet.