Google seems to be testing a new local feature that has a section named "preview this place." This shows an image carousel from the local business profile of that business in search.
This was spotted by Khushal Bherwani on Twitter who shared a video of it in action, here is a screenshot:
In the video, embedded below, you can see how it takes you into a story format:
🆕 Google new interface for about image section in business profile.
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 15, 2022
↗️ It's look like in Visual Stories format. And also see the number of slide in same.
cc - @rustybrick
🎥 Here is the screen recorder for ref - pic.twitter.com/xlysZWcVSW
Looks a bit like the large Google shopping ad image carousel and that older local image carousel.
Forum discussion at Twitter.