Google has added a learning feature to Gemini called immersive explorations: a library of interactive, visual scenes where you tap through layers to go deeper into a topic. The announcement was made on 28 October and the feature is live on web and mobile.
Each scene is built from nodes with short guided explanations. Google points to Silk Road trade routes, a jet engine’s internals and lightning physics as samples, and a scene can scale from a whole planet down to atoms. The library is small for now, with topics grouped under headings such as energy, medicine, oceans and spaceflight.
In practice you pick a layer, read the short explanation attached to it, and tap again to go one level deeper, so a lesson on a jet engine can end at the materials inside a turbine blade. For students it works more like an illustrated textbook than a chat, which is the point of putting it next to the flashcard and quiz tools in the student hub.
Where to find it
Google’s Workspace Updates post gives three routes: press “Try immersive explorations” in the Gemini student hub, open gemini.google.com/immersive-explorations, or pick Students in the Gemini app menu. The student hub is for Education Fundamentals, Standard and Plus plans, while the direct link works for all Workspace customers, Workspace Individual subscribers and people with personal Google accounts. There is no admin control or user setting for it.
Audio narration for each layer and access from inside a Gemini chat are listed as coming soon. You can’t yet create an exploration on a topic of your own, and Google hasn’t said whether that will change. The library has 20 topics in all when we counted them in the Gemini app, grouped into five categories: How Things Work, History, Nature, Space and the Human Body. When we tried it, some topics opened without any changes, but others stayed blank until we turned on the browser’s graphics acceleration. If a scene stays blank on a computer, switch on “Use graphics acceleration when available” (in Chrome, Settings > System) and restart the browser.
Languages
Six languages get the full experience: English, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese. Everyone else sees an English-only version for now, with more languages planned. Google says the feature is available to all users and lists no country limits. It works in English, one of six languages; Urdu is not among them.
Google says the feature is already available to Rapid Release and Scheduled Release Workspace domains, so most users should see it without waiting for a staged rollout.
