Opening of the conference Google I/O traditionally belongs among the most interesting technology events of the year. Although the conference is intended for developers, its announcements and informative for users, as reveal a little the future development of the digital industry. The opening of the Google I/O 2017 is no exception. They talked about many things, although without details, which, of course, would be most interesting to users.
Google will not allow to become weary of doing digital reality increasingly integrated into conventional reality. When the scene came the head of the company Sundar Pichai (Sundar Pichai), then it’s time to get pleasantly surprised. At the conference 2017 7,000 participants, there will be 400 events. Of course, all innovations by the search giant, unveiled today, will be considered. Now only have to briefly look at how things will develop technologies in the context of the developments of Google, and enjoy already achieved success.
Started as usual with the results, reflecting the success the search giant of the statistics. YouTube has 1 billion users per month. Viewed 1 billion hours of video. 60% watch YouTube videos with mobile devices. Viewing TV has increased during the year by 90%. The YouTube app is installed on half a billion devices-not including phones. Over the past year the number of live broadcasts on YouTube have quadrupled. Super Chat is a new feature to chat during the broadcast, simulating the effect of presence.
Every day users place Google photos, 1.2 billion photographs. To Google Photos 500 million active users. Running Android works 2 billion devices. We are talking only about the active devices. Have Gmail 1 billion users.
Google Photos will recommend you to share photos with those people whom Google will recognize in the pictures. And it’s called “Suggested Sharing”.
The Android Wear 2.0 24 create a watch brand. The use of Android Auto has increased 10 times. Volvo and Audi will install Android on their cars. Every 2 months — 1 million activations of new Android devices TV. Later this year, Android TV will come a new loader and Google Assistant.
Android O debuts upcoming summer. The flexibility and compliance of the real problems will become its distinguishing characteristics. Picture in picture — if the window is open YouTube press Home button puts the playback in this mode. The new interface notifications — Notification Dots and autocomplete working in a variety of applications, not only in Chrome. When text is selected, the neural network will try to understand what wants to highlight the user, and automatically extracts the fragment.
To the real problems include safety, time, battery life, startup time and stability. Google Play Protect make safety more visible and tell the users scanned apps.
Android O will be on Pixel to boot twice as fast than it is now. Play Console Dashboards will inform the developer if their app is too quickly empties the battery. Give the developers understand that such applications are not user friendly. And, of course, a selection of updated Emoji.
There were also some very interesting facts. For example, India has more Android users than in the US. This means that devices should become more available. There is also the need to adapt software to a limited traffic, and support for multiple languages. O optimized Android for cheap devices. Including for with 1 Gigabyte of RAM or even less RAM. The user interface and the core is optimized so that it was enough just 512 megabytes of RAM. Optimized apps appear in the Play Store.
A new programming language for Android with Kotlin. It will increase the productivity of developers.
Home Google uses machine learning to understand what is said by the user. Computer vision also improved. The first innovation presentations — Google Lens. Assistant works in Google, and Google Photos. You can run the Lens from Assistant, to specify, for example, a flower, and the system identificeret this flower. Can get the user name and password of the Wi-Fi router. Has the OCR system.
Tensor Processing Units (TPU) — a simple combination of Central and graphics processors. 180 trillion floating point operations per second. All of this to artificial intelligence from Google. A new generation of “cloud TPU”. And this will be available in Google Cloud Compute Engine. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can be applied in medical diagnostics of pathologies.
Google Assistant now available in 100 million devices. With it simplifies the user interaction with the search. 70% of queries in Assistant — natural language, rather than using keywords.
Lens will also work with Google Translator and translate, for example, a menu with the Japanese. But that’s not all — you can also find out what kind of a dish. Lens works automatically with recipes. Google Assistant is already available for the iPhone. Also added support for a number of languages. Supported French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Italian. Almost all the features that Samsung pleased, announcing Bixby, is now available from Google Lens.
Actions — similar to that implemented in the Alexa but Google. Actions coming to Android phones and iPhone. Working with payments, recipes, creating accounts. Allows you to order food, for example. Added 50 new functions. Google and other companies are eager to teach the user to make purchases with the use of speech, but users are still more convenient than the usual manual entry.
Innovation Home essentially doing the whole house is one big phone.
Virtual and augmented reality continue to grow and develop. The Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ Daydream support will appear in the summer of 2017 through the provision of software updates. A new type of virtual reality device — a device which does not need a smartphone. Google is working with its partners on the creation of such devices. Qualcomm has created a reference design Daydream-helmet. HTC and Lenovo are also working on them.
Tango phone Asus Zenfone AR will also be released this summer. Visual Positioning Service will help the user to find, for example, exactly what he is looking for.
Google Expeditions — solution of virtual reality for education appears an augmented reality mode that will allow in their classroom to consider, for example, natural phenomena.
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