From virtual assistant to Google lens here are key takeaways from I/O Conference

With, Google is bringing together a collection of efforts and teams to bring the benefits of AI to everyone.
From virtual assistant to Google lens here are key takeaways from I/O ConferenceKicking off the three-day Google annual I/O Developers' Conference in Mountain View, California, ​ Google CEO Sundar Pichai today launched a host of service and products for Google users. The event is likely to witnees announcements on upcoming projects for Android, Web and iOS developers. Here are some of the key takeaways from Google I/O event:

1. Google's core mission: Organising the world's information for everyone

2. Google has crossed over 2 billion active users on Android

3. It is now focused on moving towards an Artificial Intelligence-first approach.

4. Rolling out of 'Smart Reply' service to one million users of Gmail immediately

5. Voice and vision are becoming important ways users are engaging with technology

6. Cloud TPUs are the next generation TPUs. Cloud TPUs accelerate a wide range of machine learning workloads, including training and inference. It is brought to you through Google Cloud. Coming to users today.


Google Assistant

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Google's internet-connected Home speaker is ready to take on more chores in an attempt to become at least as versatile as Amazon's Echo.

There's hands-free calling, a feature Amazon just added to Echo. Google says Home will also feature ``proactive assistance,'' which means notifying you ahead of time if you need to leave early to beat traffic, for example. Google is also adding more music and video services to Home.

Google Photos
1. Suggested Sharing: Google rolls out a feature that suggests pictures from your albums that you would want to share with your friends.

2. Shared Libraries: Google launches shared libraries where you can add people you want to automatically share photos with. Auto save feature also allows the photos to be saved to the other person's google album.

3. Photo Books: This helps users by automatically chooses the best photos out of your selection, and all you have to do is make small tweaks and check out. Google will print out the book for you, either in soft cover, or hard cover. This feature will only be rolled out for the US, with other countries coming soon.

The company is realizing the evolving ways in which people take and share photos, and recognizing that even with a bevy of photo-sharing social media tools like Instagram and Facebook, sometimes people just want to share regular photos.

Also Read: ​ Google I/O 2017 live updates

Google Lens
Pichai said the new Google Lens is a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you are looking at. It will first be available as part of Google's assistant and photos products.


2. Can identify what you're looking at and give you suggestions.

3. It can also apply other google features like translate, maps, photos etc., to help users find similar places, directions, and translate texts in pictures from other languages.

1. Taking the interactive feature forward, Google launches 360 degree videos through Youtube app on the big screen.

2. Super Chat: When a creator live streams a video, fans can use this feature to send live comments to the creator in real time, allowing them to also earn extra. Users can purchase super chats to have them feature on the top of the comments section, keeping them more visible to the creator.

Android O
The next version of Google's Android operating system wants to make using your phone easier, faster and more secure.

1. Fluid Experiences:

Picture-in-Picture helps you to multitask, by launching multiple windows for different user needs.

Notification Dots: Way for application developers to send notifications to users to alert them about the activity in apps.

Auto Fill: Auto fill has been extended to apps. Login details can be directly pulled from saved websites to help setting up apps.

Smart Text Selection: In O, machine learning is used to help select phone numbers, names of business and adresses as a whole. Also, based on the information selected, other apps are suggested by O, for example if a phone number is copies, the phone book and dialer will be suggested.

2. Vitals: Vital system behaviour in healthy state to optimise user experience.

Security Enhancements: Google provided a peek at the software's upcoming features Wednesday during its annual conference for computer programmers. So-called "wise" limits will gauge and control how much battery life your apps are using. A feature called Google Play Protect, meanwhile, will scan all your apps for malicious software.

OS Optimizations: Apps are faster and smoother.

Developer Tools: Play Console Dashboards that show you an overview of user app's installs, uninstalls, ratings, revenue and crashes. Google has also added a new Developer Language Cotlands.

Beta version of O will be available from today.

Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality
Virtual reality and augmented reality help us to experience computing just as we experience the real world.

Standalone VR Headsets: No cables, no phone, no PC. New Daydream standalone headsets from partners like @htcvive won't require a phone or PC.

The new Tango-enabled Visual Positioning Service helps mobile devices quickly and accurately understand their location indoors.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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