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As Pixel Watch goes all-in on Fitbit, founder says Google Fit will co-exist for now

The culmination of Google’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Fitbit is here, with the Pixel Watch officially coming later this year with a fully integrated Fitbit experience. What does that mean for Google Fit? We’ve been curious to know for a while, but it seems Fitbit and Google Fit only have plans to co-exist. In an interview with the folks at CNET, Fitbit founder James Park answered a few…
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Google surprisingly talks augmented reality glasses at I/O 2022, starting with AR translation tease

To close out I/O 2022, Sundar Pichai very surprisingly previewed Google’s upcoming augmented reality efforts for glasses, starting with AR language translation. The Google/Alphabet CEO called AR a “new frontier of computing,” and started by recapping existing efforts that were just announced today, including Multisearch and Scene Exploration in Google Lens, as well as Immersive View in…
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Google releases Android 13 Beta 2 for Pixel phones

With the wider consumer preview starting earlier than usual this year, Android 13 Beta 2 is now here at I/O 2022 just over two weeks after the last update for Pixel phones. Beta 2 is an “incremental Beta-quality release” before the Platform Stability milestone next…
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How to install the Android 13 Beta on Google Pixel

Android 13 is following a different schedule compared to last year’s major update, and that’s resulting in the first Android 13 beta being released two weeks before its usual Google I/O debut. If you’re a Google Pixel owner, here’s how to install the Android 13 beta. Which Pixel devices can install the Android 13 beta? The next major release of Android will result in some of Google’s…
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Better ARCore depth and motion tracking coming to Pixel 6 and Google Maps Live View

Google’s platform for mobile augmented reality is available on 1.2 billion Android devices today. At I/O 2022, ARCore is getting foundational improvements to make it work faster and more reliably on the Pixel 6 and in Google Maps Live View. To improve immersion, Google has improved ARCore’s depth capabilities, which enables virtual objects to appear behind real ones (occlusion) and other more…
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