Bixby Vision taps machine learning and database partnerships to make the camera a little more useful. Bixby Vision recognizes several categories of objects: Place, Text, Image, Food, QR Codes, Wine, and Shopping. You launch it by tapping the Bixby button in the Galaxy S9’s camera app, or the Bixby Vision icon on the left side. You can also find Bixby Vision in the Gallery app.
Much like Google Lens or Amazon’s Flow, Bixby Vision’s Image search tries to suss out whatever’s in front of the Galaxy S9’s camera (thanks to Pinterest’s Lens Tool), and serve up information depending on what it finds.
By default, Bixby Vision opens in Text mode, which allows you to translate a foreign language into your chosen language. It supports a large range of languages, and works similarly to other examples of its kind, like Google Lens. Line up the text you want to translate into the box on screen, and a real-time translation should appear. It can be a little buggy, but we got it to work eventually.
