Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. I'm ready to get started with
another video for Google Home and Google Assistant, both new features and new
products related to those two smart home products. The first thing I want to talk
to you about this week is related to Continued Conversations now Continued
Conversations was a feature that Google announced at Google i/o 2018 and of
course I have had a number of questions on the channel from tons of you asking when
are these new features coming out. Well the latest beta from Google has been
broken down by Android Police and they actually show Continued Conversations
within that beta. So they're seeing that that's going to come out relatively soon. I
would expect we're about a month away from it being released in the US. It could
even be less at this point if that beta is going well. Now keep in mind I didn't
say anywhere other than the U.S.A.. What we've seen from Google, and I've
confirmed this with a source at Google, they roll out to the other countries
around the world after. It just takes more time to kind of package this
together for those of us in countries like Canada, the UK, Australia, and all
over the world. So you might have to hold on a little longer if you're outside of
the US, but it looks like Continued Conversations is coming very soon.
Something I've already seen on the Google Home and the Google Home
application is the reservations tab. Now this is in your settings so if you go to
the Google Home app, and you go right into the more settings in the menu up at
the top left, you will find reservations. This is tied of course to Google
Payments and the attempts by Google to get you signed up and start using a
payment system. So now you can reserve hotels and flights, and we already know
that the hotel and flight capability is really good with Google Home and
Google Assistant so this is just an expansion. It's also intended to help you
to sign up for subscription-based services. If you haven't seen this
already, this is somebody who clearly understands a little bit about robotics
and physics, but there's actually a person on the internet who managed to
fire a gun with the Google Home. You can see in the video, and I'll show you a
little clip of it, you can see in the video that this person is actually
firing it using a what I think is a Wemo switch, actually tied to a
power cable that's causing an electromagnet to pull a trigger. So you
know it's not something that I think a lot of people are going to do, obviously,
but this is the sort of capability that the Google Home has given you. If you've
been following the channel you'll know that I talked last week about the Amazon
Alexa and the Echo devices being teamed up with Schlage locks, and basically what
they got last week on those devices is the ability to unlock their door.
They already had lock commands and they already had the ability to know whether
the front door was locked, or your lock was locked or unlocked. What's
happened this week is Google Assistant now has access to the Schlage locks. You
can now through Google Assistant, connect those and therefore on your Google Home.
The difference here is that you can't unlock just yet. So that service is
not yet available through your Google Home of your Google Assistant but you
can lock and get the status of your locks. If you have a Netatmo
security camera, this is the Presence or the Welcome model, you now have the
ability through your Google Assistant and/or your Google Home to actually
bring up a live feed on a Chromecast enabled device. You can also turn on a
floodlight if you have the Presence model. So you can turn on that
floodlight basically to see what's going on out there. For those of you that
don't already know, YouTube does have a premium streaming service. Now it's not
exactly keeping up with Netflix at this time, but what they're doing is they're
starting to release some of that premium content or giving you early access
through your Google Home or your Google Assistant. There's a new series
coming out called Impulse and you can get a free preview through your Google
Home. Let me show you how through a demo. "Talk to impulse." "Okay, let's get Impulse."
"Impulse will launch on YouTube Red on June 6, but you can access an
early sneak preview of the first episode right now by saying the secret password.
What's the password?" "Henry." You got it , is it okay for me to access your email
address and send you a link? I'll just need to get your email address from
Google. Is that okay?" "Yes." "I've sent you an email with the link. Thank you and enjoy impulse."
All right well there you go that series comes out on June 6th, and of course
Google is trying to promote that through their YouTube premium service, but you
can go ahead and get that preview now to see what that series is all about.
If you're in Canada you know the Swiss Chalet
brand, and some functionality that's actually been added, and this is the
first I've really seen in Canada, a voice order functionality being available. You
can actually order from Swiss Chalet through the Google Assistant application
today. So this is obviously going to translate very quickly to the Google
Home, doesn't look like I can do that today, but I'm guessing it's going to be
there very soon. Especially when we consider kind of the earlier
conversation about the reservations and the payments capability being added
here in Canada and in many other countries. Alright, well there you go.
That's all I have to talk about this week about the Google Home and the
Google Assistant, but I do have a Google Home Giveaway on the channel. It is actually a
full-size Google Home. I want you to go down, read down below in the description.
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entries as well. So thanks everyone for watching, we'll see you next time.