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Magellan

Built at Google DeepMind Bangalore Hackathon · Jul 11, 2026 · Marathahalli, Marathahalli Main Road

Magellan — Demo video

*DUE TO TIME RESTRCITIONS ONLY THE LIVE NAVIGATION and assitant features have been demoed on the video. ALL THE MENTIONED FEATURES ARE THERE IN THE READY LIVE PRODUCT* Executive Summary The Core Problem Solved Traditional AI chatbots and assistants operate in a situational vacuum—they have no continuous, real-time context of your physical environment, ongoing travel timeline, or ambient actions. The Solution: Project Magellan Magellan is an advanced agentic spatial-AI travel companion that continuously observes, listens, and remembers. It bridges digital intelligence with physical environments to offer hands-free voice guides, real-time spatial translations, navigation routing, historical context, and localized weather. Key Technical Specs & Core Features Model Orchestration: Gemini 3.5 Flash: Orchestrates transcription, text/voice queries, and ambient reasoning. Imagen 3 (Omni Image Gen): Recreates photorealistic landmarks and objects based on user interactions. Nano Banana 2 (Modular Image-to-Image translation): Translates physical signs, maps, and menus on camera while recreating the original layout, font style, and art design as a 16:9 translated replica. Persistent Trip Memory: Magellan slots individual trips in and out, creating memory ledgers and summaries of your route history, recommendations, and local context wherever you go. Dynamic Spatial Utilities: Seamlessly displays navigation cards, local weather forecast feeds, landmark history summaries, and restaurant recommendations inside a fluid, dual-orientation (vertical/horizontal) UI.

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