Google, there’s a secret chat and voice-prompted living room … – The Messenger

A virtual assistant parlor that change channels and turn on the house lights, a ‘smart and secret chat and a virtual reality platform. Here are the new challenges of the Google developer conference, which opened in Mountain View, an appointment in its tenth year that shows the technological innovations to come. The challenges are directed at big technology as Amazon, a pioneer in home automation table with the Echo device, but also a popular messaging services like WhatsApp and Snapchat, the first choice of young. And virtual reality fielded by Facebook and Samsung.

Google’s Home, the “handyman” living room, is a simple cylinder: It has no keys, you control with your voice and you can do many requests as turning on lights or play music at home, require special TV programs. But it serves mainly to “interrogate Google” and to carry out daily activities, from buying tickets to the shopping lists, from the alarm clock to the reservation of a car, from flight information to the reservation of the restaurant. It arranges them will be later this year and is based on Google Assistant, the new platform announced by the CEO of Big G, Sundar Pichai. “At Google you can ask complex questions, will be able to understand what you want and will take account of the context for all the additional applications,” Pichai said before an audience of 7000 people Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, and those who follow the ‘event streaming, “a million only from China.” Google Assistant, on the other, will be ubiquitous: it will be integrated in smartphones, the smartwatch, in cars, and precisely in living rooms with Home. The other ground on which it moves the Californian company is that of the chat At that integrates video calls thanks to another app combined, which is called Duo. Both will arrive over the summer both on Android and on iOS platform.

At the also provides for the “Incognito” mode that makes the encrypted chat, but also offers private notifications and the ability to chat ‘disposable “Snapchat in style. “At the more you use and the answers will be customized, ‘says Big G to understand the system of the answers’ smart’ that also work with photos. A bit of disappointment on virtual reality front. There is a display on the stage is only a sketch shown on the screen, but there is a platform that is called Daydream and will be available on smartphones, displays, controllers and applications. The ecosystem of applications promises rich: Wall Street Journal, CNN, NYT, USA Today are working on apps for Daydream. Even the Google Play store will have its app compatible: Street View, photos and YouTube which has been “completely redesigned” for virtual reality. Finally, Google explains, “the Android operating system, the most popular in the world, is on over 600 smartphones launched in the last year.” The new version will arrive later this summer and at the time only a code name, ‘Android N’. For this Big launches a ‘contest’ between users: they must help her search for a name.