The question remains, though: Is what we've seen today for Google Home enough to close the gap with the Smart Home-hub leader Amazon Echo? It may get a leg up on that if Android TV gains more traction, since Google Assistant voice control is coming to that platform. Google's competitor to Amazon Echo is just a year old; even younger if you start counting from when the first hardware product, Google Home, became available. And it looks like the best smart-home-assistant plan at the moment is to speak a lot of different tech dialects. But Google Assistant has recently added support for Whirlpool and GE appliances.
Search and Google Assistant also get a boost from the company's machine learning progress, Now you can type into Assistant on your phone and it will be able to converse with you about what you show it through Google Lens' eye (the camera), such as helping you with translations, Assistant is now available on iOS, and Google released a developer's kit to bring hard shell case for apple iphone 7 - crystal flower it to a whole bunch of other devices, Actions on Google will allow developers to deliver the ability to perform transactions from request to receipt..
Google wants to push you to share more, adding Suggested Sharing to Google Photos to remind you to share and recommend who to share with, plus a feed of shared images. It works on iOS, too. Shared Libraries automatically saves photos from a group of people, and you can set intelligent rules based on content for adding to your instance. (The example given was automatically sharing photos you take of your kids with your partner.). And now it will be able to automatically select photos to create photo books.
Google Lens is being integrated into Photos for example, to help identify places hard shell case for apple iphone 7 - crystal flower and bring up information about them, Following its Daydream View phone-based headset from last year, which has garnered new phone partners, Google announced an unnamed Daydream-compatible headset that doesn't require a phone -- a standalone wireless VR headset with built-in positional tracking, We'll see devices later this year, It also mentioned its visual positioning service, which uses Project Tango technology to locate yourself indoors to a finer degree than GPS..
The ability to stream live and prerecorded YouTube 360 videos will be coming soon to the YouTube app on your smart TV. The previously announced Super Chat, which lets you throw money at the person running a livestream, will now let you make stuff happen in real life. Not everything we saw or heard about today will become a success, though. If you need proof, take a look at these past Google I/O flops. But that's just the 30,000-foot view of what the tech behemoth showed us today, for a 100-foot view, read our interview with some of Google's decision makers. And, of course, you'll be able to find our continuing 3-foot views from our people on the ground in Mountain View for our continuing coverage of the three-day Google I/O conference.