Google Event 2017 Live Stream Blog: Pixel 2, Google Home Mini And More
Live stream is now over, but check out all of the Google event's details below
View the live stream for Google's 2017 product launch event here. We will also be updating with live blog details. Find start times below.
Live Blog
Rick Osterloh back on stage: Thanks guests and live stream viewers for participating.
Google Clips Announced
- Parents and pet owners in mind
- AI engine at core
- Hands-free camera looks like camera with indicator light
- Save on Google Photos
- $249, Coming soon
Google Pixel Buds Announced
- Tap to play, stop, pause
- Swipe for volume
- Tap and hold for Google Assistant
- Real-time translation - 40 languages
- 5 hours listening time with one charge
- Color options: Clearly White, Just Black, Kinda Blue
- Availability: November
- Price: $159, Preorderder today
Google Daydream View
- Upgraded lenses and fabrics on the headset
- 250+ VR titles in Daydream
- Price: $99
Juston Payne takes the stage
Pixel 2 Price and Availability
- Pixel 2: $649 - Preorder today
- Pixel 2 XL: $849 - Preorder today
- First Availability: Austrailia, Canada, Germany, India, U.K., U.S.
- Later: Italy, Singapore, Spain
- Verizon exclusive, Project Fi
- Google Home Mini free with purchase for limited time in limited markets
Pixel 2 Camera Details
- Pixel 2 has DxOMark rating of 98 (passing iPhone 8, Galaxy Note 8)
- F/1.8 aperture, HDR, OIS, new autofocus mechanism
- Portrait Mode - One camera + Machine learning, dual pixel sensor -- Works with objects, works with front facing camera (selfies), works with Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
- Fused video stabilization - OIS and EIS works at the same time
- Motion Photos
- Free unlimited storage for all images/video, Pixel users take twice as many photos than iPhone users
- Transfer from older device in 10 minutes or less
Mario Queiroz back on stage
Pixel Camera optimized for AR
Characters from SNL, YouTube, NBA, Starwars
AR Stickers -- exclusive to Pixel - Stickers can react to environment and each other
Augmented Reality: ARCore -- SDK for Android
"Accuracy rate of over 95 percent for voice recognition."
"Lens" images, books, movies, albums, locations
Grab emails, web addresses, phone numbers
Discusses Google Lens
Aparna Chennapragada takes the stage
Pure Android Oreo
Active Edge feature - Start Google Assistant by squeezing sides of the phone (Hi HTC!), works even when the phone is in a case.
Now playing feature - Music identified with machine learning.
Sabrina Ellis takes the stage
Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL Announced
- 5-inch, 6-inch (XL)
- Aluminum body, rear fingerprint sensor unlocks faster than any other device
- Front facing stereo speakers
- No audio jack, Bluetooth 5.0 support
- Pixel 2: 5-inch Full HD OLED display, Color options: Kinda Blue, Just Black, Clearly White
- Pixel 2 XL: 6-inch P-OLED QHD - edge to edge display, Color options: Just Black, Black, White and Black
- IP67 dust and water resistance
- 7 hours of charge in 15 mins
First Google Pixel brought Google Assistant, best camera phone
Mario Queiroz takes the stage
Google Pixelbook Announced
- Chrome OS, Google Assistant - best of hardware and software with AI at the center
- Thinnest lightest, 10mm thin, 1kg light
- 4-in-1 design: Notebook, Tablet, Tent, Entertainment mode
- 12.3-inch touch screen Quad HD resolution 235ppi
- Intel Core i5, i7, up to 16GB RAM, up to 512GB SSD
- 10 hours battery life, 2 hours charge, USB-C
- Instant Tethering: Connects to Wi-fi with pixel phone
- Google Home key lets you type your request instead of speaking
- Google Pixelbook Pen - circle to start action - 10ms of latency, 60 degrees angular awareness, 200 levels of pressure sensitivity
- Google Play Support
- 3 configurations
- Oct. 31 availability
- Price: $999, Preorder today for US, Canada, UK
- Pixelbook Pen $99
Matt Vokoun takes the stage
Google Home Max Announced
- 20x more powerful than Google Home
- Speakers tuned for ideal situations, not the real world
- SmartSound - tune speaker to correct location effects, done dynamically, move and configure in seconds, adjust depending on time of day or events (like dishwasher running)
- YouTube Music, Spotify, Google Play, iHeart Radio
- Plug in other devices with aux
- Google Assistant enabled
- Stand vertically or horizontally
- December availability, $399
- Chalk, Charcoal color options
- U.S. + more markets coming next year
- 12-month YouTube Red subscription
Google Partners with Disney, Warner Brothers, and other kid-friendly brands
50 new experiences to kids to learn
Family Link accounts for Google Home -- link accounts with children under 13
Broadcast - share message with all other Google Home devices in a house
Rishi Chandra back on stage
Six new Nest hardware products
CTO of Nest, Yoky Matsuoka takes the stage
"Google Assistant works with over 1,000 smart home products from over 100 brands."
Google Home compatible with find my phone with Android even when the device is silent (and iPhone, with a phone call).
My day feature
Rishi Chandra back on stage
Google Home Mini Announced
- The striking simplicity of design. Almost entirely encloser is made of fabric
- 4 LED lights, control by touch - to pause music, talk to assistant
- 360-degree sound
- Wirelessly connect to Chromast speakers
- Colors: Coral, Chalk, Charcol
- $49, Preorder today available Oct. 19 to all seven Google Home countries
Discussing Google's design influence
Isabelle Olsson takes the stage
Hands-free calling to US and UK later this year, use personal phone number, verified through Google app
Voice match rolling out to all seven countries where Google Home is available
"An assistant can only be useful if it knows who you are."
Voice match - build a model of your voice
Investing in voice recognition for different age groups, genders, accents
Google home launching in Japan later this week
Discusses Google Home
Rishi Chandra takes the stage
"Made by Google products represent the ultimate Google experience"
Google Home can pick up voices in a noisy room, Google Wi-Fi picks up connections as people move devices through rooms, Pixel revolutionized end to end photo experience for users.
55 million Chromecast users, Google Wi-Fi #1 mesh router, 100 million unique answers for Google Assistant, Google Pixel among the highest sales, rave reviews, best smartphone camera.
Media montage of Google products
Address HTC team joining Google
Addresses the launch of first Pixel devices last year: Google Pixel, Daydream View, Google Home etc.
Rick Osterloh takes the stage
Image of children from the Dominican Republic and South Dakota speaking to each other through Google Translate.
AutoML first introduced at Google I/O three months ago - more accurate image recognition that human-generated models, object detection.
AI + Software + Hardware
Addresses limitations in Google Calendar, "Software needs to fundamentally change how it works. It needs to learn and adapt."
AI first computing. Conversational, Ambient, Contextual, Learns and Adapts
Mobile first to AI first world
2 billion Google translations each day
Discussing machine learning and AI efforts in Lagos, Nigeria.
12 p.m. Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage. Addresses Las Vegas and recent hurricanes. "Google is committed to doing our part."
Start Times
New York : 12pm
Dubai : 20:00
Berlin : 18:00 Uhr
London : 17:00
Ankara : 19:00
Sydney : 3am
Devices Expected
Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL
Chromebook Luxe
Google Home Mini
New VR hardware
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