Google’s virtual agent is said to have the capability to carry out basic tasks, presumably turning off lights, adjusting the temperature and more, and it’ll be able to answer easier questions when asked. Using Home, users will be able to direct the Home device to play a playlist, artist, album or song using their voice. This lets you can easily synchronize music playback throughout the home. Unlike the 1-way conversations we have with Google right now, Assistant is a 2-way conversation between you and Google.
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The new, more intelligent software also focuses on understanding context to answer queries and has been built into the existing Google software that appears on modern smartphones. While it grows all the time, it couldn’t compare to the amount of apps Google Home would receive with the creation of an API. Analysts claim that this new assistant may be called Google Home, and will unseat Amazon Alexa, which powers the e-retail giant’s speaker, Echo.
Now Google is giving its digital assistant a name: Google Assistant. The personal assistant, which will work through multiple devices, is an effort to deepen the relationship with customers.
Google is also distributing guidelines for a new controller with a few buttons, a touchpad and sensors to track its orientation and where it’s pointing.
Google collects a lot of data – and knows things about consumers as they walk around with their mobile phone checking mail and searching for information – but once you put your mobile phone down because you made a decision to watch TV or eat dinner, they lose track of you, Dimitri Sirota, founder and CEO of BigID, a cybersecurity firm, told Search Marketing Daily. The launch will happen at Google I/O, the organization’s yearly developer meeting, but as indicated by the New York Times, the product won’t launch until this fall.
Google’s new VR headset won’t be as sophisticated as the recently released Rift from Oculus, which costs $600 and must be tethered to computers that can cost another $1,000 or so.
Google offered no timetable on the VR headset, but said Daydream-ready phones would likely hit the market by autumn.
Amazon’s Echo can do most of those things already, but it can’t communicate with other devices the way Google Home is promising. Both apps will be available this summer.
Google I / O 2016 (Google’s annual developer conference) had its keynote this morning.
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Although Google keeps its plans under wraps until the big event, the conference agenda makes it clear that virtual reality and artificial intelligence, or “machine learning”, will be among the focal points.
