This week, Google announced the long-awaited second generation Pixel smartphones—the Google Pixel 2 and the Google Pixel 2 XL . As with any new smartphone, there are often new features that are exclusive to that device (at least for the time being). One such feature is Google Lens which is said to launch in a preview state on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Google Lens is a set of vision based computing capabilities that analyzes what you are looking at—think of it as the successor to Google Goggles. Initially announced at Google I/O 2017 , the feature was promised to eventually be integrated with two other Google products: Google Assistant and Google Photos. Despite launching in an exclusive preview state on the new Pixel phones, it has been discovered that Google Lens integration in Google Assistant can be enabled right now on any rooted Android device. It wasn’t long ago that we discovered that Google Lens integration was fully functional in Google Photos ...