Google isn't alone in its AI ambitions. Microsoft has long pushed its Cortana assistant, and Amazon has steadily gotten its Alexa helper into homes through its Echo speakers (the $50 second-gen Amazon Echo Dot just debuted). And, of course, there's Apple's Siri, which kicked off the voice assistant craze back in 2011. Beyond Google Home, the search giant also unveiled a new version of its Chromecast streaming stick and a smart Wi-Fi router. Chromecast Ultra is an update to Google's streaming stick that now takes advantage of sharper 4K resolution. But the new Chromecast, which costs $69 or £69 -- double the price of the old one -- comes as Roku and Amazon have added new choices for streaming media. Roku's cheapest option, the Express stick, costs just $30. Amazon's $40 Fire TV Stick comes with a remote that responds to voice commands.
The Chromecast Ultra costs $69, Google also showed off its latest attempt at a Wi-Fi router, It's called Google Wifi, The company entered the router fray last August with the OnHub, touted as a router for the smart-home age, The idea behind it was simple: make a router that's not an ugly box so you won't hide it in a corner and obstruct the Wi-Fi signal, Google Wifi was developed by the same team behind OnHub and designed in-house without a third-party manufacturer, The company envisions you buying multiple Google Wifi devices to expand coverage in the home, One unit costs $129, and a three-pack costs $299, Preorders begin in November, with the product shipping the following month, It's only available in vintage world map with passport stamps iphone case the US for now..
Google also unveiled Daydream View, a virtual-reality headset that will run on the Daydream VR platform first unveiled at its May developer conference. It represents a step up from the cheap $15 Cardboard VR viewers the company introduced in 2014. The original intent of the cheap Cardboard viewer was to give smartphone users a way to play with VR. Today's announcement is an acknowledgement that Google needs a more polished experience, with more content. "Google's strategy to design a VR experience optimized for existing content libraries like those available from Netflix, Hulu and HBO, while also partnering to create immersive VR experiences, gives consumers plenty of ways to immediately enjoy a range of VR experiences," IBB's Wang said.
The $79/£69 View, available in November, is meant to serve as a road map for other companies looking to build their own smartphone-powered VR headsets, Companies such vintage world map with passport stamps iphone case as Samsung and Alcatel OneTouch have already built their own units, but those devices typically only work with the company's own phones, Daydream View takes an open approach, letting you use any Android phone that's compatible with the Daydream platform, Naturally, the first Daydream-ready phone is the Pixel, Google is hoping history repeats itself and that it sets the pace in the new areas of VR and AI, We'll see..
Update, 12:41 p.m. PT: To include a comment from a consultant. A key Google executive tweeted last month that we'll be talking about the company's news today for years to come. So, yeah, expectations are high. It's difficult to tell when you're in the midst of a landmark moment in history. Few guessed that in 2008 when Google debuted the G1, the first phone to run Android, the mobile software would transform the wireless world. It didn't help that when Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin went up on stage, they were wearing roller blades.
