One of the primary aspects of this year’s Google Keynote is the implementation of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning. These two things will play an important role in our life very soon. Most of the popular Google products including Gmail and Android are rapidly adopting AI assisted functionalities. We shall talk about this in more details later.
Google I/O 2017 Top Announcements
Google Lens
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This is the new generation Google Goggles. Loaded up with a powerful AI engine, the Google Lens will tell you about almost everything you point your phone’s camera at. Starting from a simple flower, to the SSID of your Wi-Fi router if can identify a vast range of objects.
Smart Reply in Gmail
First introduced in Google’s Inbox app, the advanced AI-based reply mechanism is now coming to the native Gmail application. The Smart Reply can generate automatic responses to your emails with the help of computer intelligence.
Google Assistant
Google Assistant in Apple iPhone
Google Assistant will soon be integrated with the core Google app for iOS. Beware, Apple Siri!
Google Home
With support for active notifications, hands-free calling, access to movies, music, TV shows with visual responses displayed on your television, the Google Home going to be smarter than ever. For the last feature, you will also need a Chromecast though. Thanks to its proactive feature, you can now create reminders and schedule new calendar appointments on the Google Home.
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New Find My Device App
The Google Device Manager is now renamed as Find My Device with a surfeit of improvisations and new features. As you might guess from its name, Find My Device is designed specifically to look out for stolen or missing smartphones or tablets.
Google Photos
The popular gallery app now supports Suggested Sharing, auto-grouping of pictures and Shared Library. All these three features are made possible by facial recognition and AI. The Suggested Sharing will remind you to share photos with the people who appear in them. The auto-grouping functionality is a smart photo organizer. Lastly, with Shared Library, you can set up your smartphone to automatically share any image taken of a certain person with him or her.
Google Photo Books
This Google’s premium printed photo album. Starting at a price of $9.99 (Rs. 650 approx.), you can order a gorgeous physical photo book with selected pictures from Google Photos. You may choose between a softcover or hardcover album which will be delivered to your given address within a few days.
Android O
The successor of Android Nougat already has its developers preview available since March 2017. Here, in the Keynote, Google announced the various upcoming features of Android O, like picture-in-picture, notification dots, vitals, and lots more. The first public beta build of Android O has just gone live.
Android Go
This a lighter version of the Android O. With the Android One program not much of a success, the Android Go aims to fill its part. They both are vastly different though. The Android Go is a special iteration of the mainstream Android OS explicitly designed to work with limited resources. It comes with Lite variants of resource intensive applications like Play Store, Gmail, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
VR and AR
Google has just announced that it is working on stand-alone Daydream VR headsets that don’t require any phone PC to work. The search engine giant also unveiled a Visual Positioning System (VPS) which is the indoor variant of the GPS. This will not only help in navigation inside shopping malls, or office buildings but also enrich the backbone of AR services like Google Tango.
YouTube
You can now view 360-degree videos right on your television screen without any fancy VR headset. The new YouTube smart TV app is required for this and you will be able to pan around the 360-degree footage using your TV remote.
Google for Jobs
Most of the employers and employees around the world search for Google at least once to look for their requirements. The search engine giant has started to build an extensive Jobs platform of its own as it already has an upper hand in this niche. The Google for Jobs will soon go live in the US and later expand worldwide.
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Google Pixel 2
Unfortunately, the Google Pixel 2 was not announced at the I/O 2017. However, we have information that the successor of the Google Pixel will release in October this year. Catch our founder Mr. Abhishek Bhatnagar talking about the upcoming flagship and Android O at Zee Business. https://www.facebook.com/zeebusinessonline/videos/1527630867248745/
