Cherlynn Low graduated with a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia University in 2013 and started her tech media career writing for Laptop Mag and Tom’s Guide. She spent years reviewing smartphones, laptops, wearables and cameras before joining Engadget in 2016 as Reviews Editor.
technology at its developer conference in 2018, it was both impressive and concerning. Today, at I/O 2024, the company may be bringing up those same reactions again, this time by showing off another application of its AI smarts with something called Project Astra .
The person behind the phone stopped and drew an onscreen arrow to the top circle on the speaker and said, "What is that part of the speaker called?" Gemini promptly responded "That is the tweeter. It produces high-frequency sounds." After Astra located those glasses, the tester put them on and the video shifted to the perspective of what you'd see on the wearable. Using a camera onboard, the glasses scanned the wearer's surroundings to see things like a diagram on a whiteboard. The person in the video then asked "What can I add here to make this system faster?" As they spoke, an onscreen waveform moved to indicate it was listening, and as it responded, text captions appeared in tandem.
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