Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. It's been a couple of weeks since
I've given you a Google Home and a Google Assistant update for new products
and new features in 2018 related to those great voice assistants. Let's get going. The big
news this week related to the Google Home is the fact that it can now handle
three queries at once from you. So go ahead, put an "and" between your
three queries and you can go ahead and you'll get three things to action from
Google Home. I've been doing it already in my home. It's an instant update and
it's instantly available for you in all kinds of countries. One of the things
that we're starting to see is the entry of Smart Display settings and features
in the Google Home application. So we are now seeing when you're looking at
different settings, and even some of the applications in the Google
Assistant store, we're starting to see if something is available for a Smart
Display (with Google Assistant) it's actually saying it at the bottom of the page there now. On that
note, Lenovo came out, they had for a small time on the B&H website, I think
this was a mistake, there was a pre-order opportunity for
two of their Smart Displays with the Google Assistant on board. So get ready
for those. Those are going to come out and I think you're going to see a lot of
pre-orders from a lot of different makers now that it's being integrated
into the Google Home and the Google Assistant applications. Xbox One is going
to get both the Alexa Voice Assistant and the Google Assistant here. It's not quite
clear today whether or not Alexa and the Google Assistant are going to be able to
control everything on your Xbox, but this feature is coming for Xbox users and
you're going to be able to choose Google Assistant over Microsoft's own Cortana. Every
couple of mornings, I head down to a Starbucks and I go I get a coffee and I
use the app to pay for it. Now you can of course order ahead right now, but what's
even better is now with your Google Assistant or
your Google Home, you can go ahead and order Starbucks, as well as from
Applebee's, and from Dunkin' Donuts. So a lot of new makers or a lot of new
coffee shops. They're ready for you to go ahead and order through your voice
assistant, and then you can just show and and the payment's already complete
through your Starbucks app. Something that we've seen back and forth between
Google and Amazon is a real battle in terms of trying to get kids using their
voice assistants. Now the Google Assistant has four new apps associated
with it. Some of these are pretty familiar names. There's Learning Time
with Timmy, Moshi Twilight, Little Baby Bum, who really grew up on YouTube, and
HarperCollins, which is a big children's book maker. So these applications
that are available from these different children's content builders, they're
going to help you with routines with your toddler, they're going to help you
with night time with your toddler, there are storybook applications, there's all
kinds of opportunities here for you to get extra functionality out of your
Google Home or your Google Assistant, and really help your child understand
something. As we've seen in the past Google Assistant continues to develop
and grow out in all kinds of countries around the world. Google Assistant is now available in
Thai on both tablets and phones. So again more languages jumping into the Google
Assistant, and these are always precursors to the Google Home showing up
in those markets. So I think we know where Google Home is headed next. Now in
a previous video I mispronounced something and I'm not going to do it here.
But a major major French grocery store, Carrefour, which is actually the largest grocery retailer in
France has actually teamed up with Google. And if you've been paying
attention to what Google is doing on the retail front, this is a pairing
made in heaven so to speak. And what they're basically doing is they're
fighting Amazon's expansion in France in terms of grocery and retail growth, but
Google is also able to fight kind of fire with fire with a new or an improved
online store. If you've been following Google in terms of their
design, and some of their new code and what what they kind of announced as
their new standard design, they call it Material Design and Material Design is
being integrated into the Google Assistant, in the Google Home
applications, as we go forward here. There's a new "Coming Up For You" section
that has the new material design or material theme within it. The assistant
app through this gains a section called "Keep Track of Things" which they're
thinking will include the orders and reservations, upcoming trips, notes, lists other things like that. The second large
redesign was basically around Podcasts and I think if you've used the Google
Assistant, or the Google Home application for that matter, to try and find a
podcast, it's pretty much impossible. So here now we have a new UI coming to the
Google Assistant app that helps you locate podcasts that you're going to
want to listen to. Alright everyone, so we're seeing some great updates from
Google related to the Smart Displays, some of those manufacturers are starting to
come along. Google is now getting that capability integrated into their apps.
We're also seeing the Google Home continue to expand, and on that note come
back to the channel here in just a couple of days, I'm going to tell you
when all these new features are coming. Or I'm at least going to tell you what
Google has told me about when all the new features are coming that were
announced at Google I/O 2018, or for the features that you've been waiting for a
long time. I know lots of countries have been waiting, so stay tuned for that.
That's coming in a couple of days everyone. Otherwise, thanks for watching.
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