Google TV is introducing a range of new features powered by its Gemini AI model, including a more natural and intuitive Google Assistant experience, personalized ambient mode, and enhanced smart home integration.
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Google presented an early look at new software and hardware upgrades coming to Google TV devices. The new features include the integration of Google's AI model, Gemini, to the Google Assistant, as well as a new ambient experience.
New smart TVs with Google TV will also gain far-field mics and proximity sensors to support the new software perks. If you've used a Google TV or Google streaming device, you may have already used the 'hey Google' prompt to search for shows to watch. With the addition of Gemini, those 'conversations' should now feel more natural. Asking follow-up questions or even changing topics to ask about something else won't require you to say the prompt again. You should also be able to search for content more intuitively, saying things like, 'What are the newest movies from Disney?' Interacting with your connected smart home devices should be easier as well, letting you say, for example, 'Who's at the front door?' to view your video doorbell feed. The new Google TV experience will include YouTube videos to supplement answers to your queries. So if you ask, 'what are the best pizza places in Chicago?' your TV will give you a list of videos to check out. To facilitate the new AI-fueled Assistant capabilities, Google TV sets will now come standard with far-field microphones so you can talk to the Google Assistant without the remote. Google is also working on a new ambient experience that will rely on proximity sensors to trigger an on-screen hub that shows personalized widgets like weather, news, traffic and so on. And when you're not viewing the hub or actively watching TV, an always-on mode can display art or even AI-generated screensavers, again enabled by Gemini's smarts.
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