Matt WolfeFutureTools.io · Founder of Future Tools | Host of Next Wave Podcast

I Didn’t Know AI Could Do THIS

5 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this video, Matt Wolfe showcases two striking applications of Google’s Gemini Omni model. First, he highlights Chris First’s demo where a Google Maps screenshot with a hand‑drawn route was fed to Gemini Omni, which generated a first‑person video of a taxi driving exactly along that route. Second, he presents Bilal’s experiment where a hand‑sketched camera path was used to produce drone‑point‑of‑view footage that follows the path precisely, including flying under a bridge and past a tall building. Wolfe emphasizes the model’s ability to faithfully follow user‑defined paths and suggests that such AI‑generated establishing shots could be a game‑changer for low‑budget filmmakers who lack access to real drones.

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Last week Google released their Gemini Omni model, and since then all sorts of cool use cases have been popping up. But I wanted to share the one that I've found the most fascinating that you can actually do. So I first saw this one from Chris First here. He uploaded a screenshot of Google Maps to Gemini Omni and he drew a route on the map. Then he prompted it to create a first-person view of someone driving a taxi cab along the route, and then it actually generated this video of a car driving down the street in that exact route that it showed. And then my buddy Bilal here, he took that took that to another level. He gave Google Omni a sketched camera path and asked it to generate drone POV footage. Now I'll play it with audio to start because you can actually hear the drone. And we can see the drone follows that exact path. We can see it flying by this tall building up in the top right towards the end of the video. We could see that it flew under the bridge like he asked it to. Here's that big building. Pretty cool use case if you make short films and things like that and you need an establishing shot for something but don't have a drone, well, there's options to do that now.