Hello everyone. thanks for tuning in again. I'm going to take you through
what's called Ambient Mode with the Lenovo Smart Display. So google's Ambient
Mode was released some time ago for Google Chromecast and other Chromecast
style devices, but what they've done since is they've allowed it to go out to
devices like the Lenovo Smart Display, and I'm going to show you how to use it
here today.
Google Home has created Ambient Mode and what they did initially with the Google
Chromecast was they allowed you to look at kind of historical paintings, big
landscapes, and other kind of big pictures like that on your TV that had
Chromecast. So if you had either a Chromecast enabled TV or you had a
chromecast on your TV, these images were basically downloaded and rotated through.
Now what you can see going on on my display here is a lot more personalized,
so you can see pictures of me, my family, other pictures that were important to me,
showing up here on my Lenovo Smart Display. That's what I'm going to show
you how to do here, so I'm going to bring up my iPhone, and we're gonna start
rolling through the different settings here. So the first thing you have to do
is actually go into the devices section of the Google Home application, that's up
in the top right of your screen and then you're going to scroll down and you're
going to find your device. Now mine is called basement office display and you
can see right now that the pictures are synchronizing between the two devices so
that's what's going on we're rolling through the pictures here and that is
actually ambient mode so I can either tap on the three dots and tap on ambient
mode settings or you can see down below I can tap on edit ambient mode now
editing ambient mode gives you four options so there's the Google photos the
art gallery the fullscreen clock which I'll show you and then you can see I'm
using the experimental mode and that's how I'm getting these kind of
personalized pictures on my Lenovo smart display no more than that I can show and
hide whether the time I can show personal photo data so for example it
says on my device that I took the picture any time I took the picture and
it's uploaded to my account the other thing you can do is actually change the
slideshow speed so you can range from about 5 seconds all the way up you can
see to ten minutes so this gives you a pretty wide range of how often you're
going to switch that picture and really changes the functionality quite a bit so
now again I'm going to roll through some of the different options so you can
go into google photos now this is the Google Photos application so if you have
an Android phone you're much more likely to be using Google photos if you have a
Google Drive account again you're much more likely because you have the storage
space but ultimately what you can do is go in and pick from any of your albums
you can see as I picked that it's changing the picture on my device so
going back I can go to the art gallery which was the initial way that this
feature worked and you can see it switching right away again to all those
different pictures that Google basically curates
they create that list now heading back the full screen clock is a nice feature
if that's all you're looking for really if you really just want to see the time
on your device and I can see why there's a number of different clocks here that
you can choose and from there there's not much else to talk about now heading
to the experimental mode this is where I think this feature really changed for me
you can see that you can connect your Facebook and your Flickr account so if
you haven't already connected that you simply tap here it will ask you for the
login settings and you're basically all done at that point but for now I'm
already connected so I'm just going to tap in to there and then you can see I
could turn on and off my Facebook account I could remove my Facebook
account if I wanted to ever in the future and then I can also go in and
again here's all my different albums from Facebook that I can scroll through
and I can switch between so I can remove the cover photos album if I'd like to
simply by tapping on it and that will no longer show up on my Lenovo smart
display the other thing that's really great about this feature that's about
where I'm going to leave the actual work here on the phone but the other nice
thing about this feature is you can switch this per device so that's a big
differential you can have certain photos on certain devices and you can have
other photos on say the Lenovo smart display just
illustrate that Here I am using my upstairs TV which is a true chromecast
here I'm going to tap on edit ambient mode and then you can see that I have
some more features here you can see I can change the weather from Celsius to
Fahrenheit or show both if I'd like that's different from the Lenovo smart
display which was just showing show or hide on weather I can also choose the
art gallery and you're noticing that my Lenovo smart display did not change to
the art gallery it stayed with my curated Facebook content or my Facebook
content there so I think that's a pretty good run-through of ambient mode here
for your Lenovo smart display I think it's a great feature
you guys can always let me know down in the comments below but I have one thing
to tell you about here before you get going we actually have a giveaway here
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so thanks for watching everyone we'll see you next time
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