Every single product announced at today’s event in San Francisco has been placed up on the Google Store today. That includes the Pixel phones, Google Home, the Daydream View VR headset, the Chromecast Ultra and
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Rumors have been blowing up the perception of Google’s ambitions to manufacture its own products. Sure, it’s made its own Chromecasts, it’s going to make its own Google Home smart assistant, but what about that Pixel C tablet? How about
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“VR should be mobile, should be approachable, should be for everyone.”It’s why at Google I/O the company is improving upon everything it had in its earlier Cardboard solution. The Daydream experience on Android N to bring higher framerates, lower latency, better motion quality and processing.Smartphones must have minimum specifications for Daydream. Samsung, HTC, ...
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In keeping with its secretive nature and tradition, Google let very few things slip in the weeks leading up to the 2016 installment of I/O. We’re pretty sure Android N will be further detailed at the software developer-focused conference in San Francisco tomorrow, perhaps finally getting an
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T-minus five days … and counting.Google’s biggest developer conference of the year is happening at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, from May 18 to 20. If you weren’t lucky to be chosen to get tickets for the event, you can still grab a chair at one of the 471 (and counting) I/O Extended events. Better yet, you can stream select events live from the Google I/O app ...
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Google is no stranger to serving up subtle (and sometimes, not-very-subtle) hints regarding unreleased software and hardware in the oddest places. A program’s source code could often contain so-called easter eggs confirming names or functions of other apps, platforms and devices, while placeholder listings will occasionally pop up in plain view on the search giant’s many portals.With the Android VR cat effectively out of the bag now, Big G decided to join in the speculation games to further ...
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It’s often hard to make heads or tails of rumors pertaining to upcoming software and hardware launches by Google, since the search giant is particularly secretive about its plans, not to mention crafty for bogus intel, and always capable of changing product roadmaps at the last minute.But you had to be a fool to think there was no truth to VR development gossip, with Samsung,
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While waiting for an exciting next-gen Cardboard headset full of sensors and a way more powerful standalone Google VR viewer, both of which could see daylight at the I/O conference in a week or so, you’re free to experiment with the immersive technology for a crazy low price in more countries than ever.And you’re even officially supported by the search giant now in Canada, UK, France and Germany, a few months after the US ...
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Forget “natural-looking” emoji, floating windows, the return of night mode, and app priority importance. Virtual reality might not only be the next big thing for tech in general, but also the ...
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While we can probably all agree Google’s first early 2016 April Fools’ Day prank uncharacteristically bombed, a slew of much better gags and hilarious introduction videos for fake products were always expected to debut today.The hoaxes and “crazy features” ultimately went “official” a good number of hours ago, when it was still March 31, ranging as usual from gut-busting to self-deprecating to outright bizarre and… stuff we’d actually like to see happen.Hands down the best, most elaborate and funniest clip (embedded ...
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There aren’t many tech companies that can charge people $900 for attending a developer-focused conference, and attract so much interest in their software products a raffle is needed to randomly select participants from the hordes of applicants.But Google I/O ticket demand has once again exceeded the capacity of the event’s venue, moved from the traditional San Francisco Moscone Center to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, so even if you entered the lottery in time, and were lucky enough ...
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Between the start of HTC Vive pre-orders, and Microsoft inviting developers to pre-order HoloLens, we’ve totally got virtual reality on the mind today. And while expensive new hardware like those new options may give you a VR experience that’s second to none, you don’t need to break the bank in order to get started, and there are lots of affordably priced Cardboard-compatible viewers out there for you to use with ...
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Google’s been making a big investment in virtual reality lately, and with all the reports we’ve heard of new VR hires, it hasn’t been hard to imagine that this interest might extend beyond the sort of relatively simple Cardboard viewer we have now. But just how far could Google be planning to go? A recent report suggested news could be coming at this year’s I/O, including a next-gen ...
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For a fledgling, immature, and extremely experimental market, the virtual reality universe is about to get a little too crowded for its own good, with options ranging from your rudimentary Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR to the much fancier Oculus ...
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Google Cardboard has opened the door on virtual reality for millions of smartphone users, but based on the recent hirings and shifting of resources Google’s been up to, it’s becoming clear that Cardboard’s only the start, and Google’s got some much larger VR ambitions; where will they take us? While Google hasn’t made any public proclamations of its future VR plans, evidence from at least one ...
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