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CNET on MSNEverything We Learned at Google I/O. AI Mode in Chrome, Gemini Live, XR Glasses and Much MoreFrom its new Project Aura XR glasses to Chrome's wants-to-be-more-helpful AI mode, Gemini Live and new Flow generative video tool, Google puts AI everywhere.
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is here. I/O will showcase product announcements from across Google’s portfolio. We're looking forward to plenty of news relating to Android,
Project Astra debuted at I/O 2024 as a next-generation AI assistant that can view the world around you, and provide advice and tips throughout the day. Since then, Astra has been incorporated into the camera and screen-sharing capabilities of the Gemini app and Google says it upgraded Astra's voice output to be more natural with native audio,
Improved PDF access: Previously, if you opened a scanned PDF with Chrome, there was no way to use a screen reader to interact with it. Now, thanks to OCR, Chrome can recognize text in a document and allow you to highlight it, copy it, search it, or use a screen reader to read the text aloud.
Google integrated Gemini AI into Android’s TalkBack feature. This enables users to get image descriptions when alt text is not available. Now, with a new update, users can now ask questions about the image or content displayed on the screen.