[Software]Google will measure how you breathe thanks to your mobile camera

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In Spain, portable devices capable of measuring different parts of our health, especially heart or respiratory rates, are becoming increasingly po[CENSORED]r. All with specialized sensors to make a metric as accurate as possible. Google wants to make everything easier with Google Fit, its health application.

Google will add a function to its application that will allow us to perform heart and respiratory rate measurements using our smartphone's camera, as we can read on Engadget. Measurements nowhere near as precise as would be achieved using a specialized device, but sufficient to make the odd estimate.

The features will be released in the app in a month and unsurprisingly, they will first launch for Google's proprietary phones, the Google Pixels, in which case the update will take a few weeks.