Verizon owners have been curious as to the reason why they don’t have support for Bixby Vision on the Galaxy S8 nor Galaxy S8+. However, that mystery in no more, because an update via Samsung’s Galaxy Apps store can now enable Bixby Vision on your Verizon Galaxy S8 model.

Samsung couldn’t furnish all of Bixby’s new features in time for the global rollout of the Galaxy S8, but promised that an update would arrive later this year. This functionality is now being pushed to Galaxy S8 handsets in South Korea and is said to land in the U.S. soon. However, Verizon owners of Samsung’s latest and most feature-rich smartphone have had their own share of lack of support.

Verizon owners have been left out of the fun in the past, for whatever reason, and this was the case with Samsung’s Galaxy S8 models up until today.

Bixby’s image recognition feature that uses Amazon’s shopping technology has been available on other carriers since the point of release, and can now be loaded onto Verizon’s model of Samsung’s greatest handset with an update of Bixby from the Galaxy Apps store. With it, users will be able to identify objects by simply pointing their camera lens towards anything around them.

Bixby tries to provide information about the product and give an Amazon product link of where you can buy the mysterious item. It’s a very cool and easy-to-use approach of a technology we’ve already seen developed into handsets and apps in the past, but with AI and machine learning, Bixby improves over time with use.

SOURCE [SamMobile]