Name: What's new in AR (Google I/O '18)
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EITAN MARDER-EPPSTEIN: How's everyone doing today?

Well, welcome to Google I/O. My name is Eitan Marder-Eppstein.

And I am an engineering manager here at Google.

And I'm going to take a few polls throughout this talk.

are familiar with augmented reality in general?

Every time I give a talk like this, more hands go up,

give a quick refresher about augmented reality for those

of you who maybe aren't quite as familiar with it,

and especially how augmented reality relates to smartphones,

which is something that we're really, really

And then I'm going to talk about some of the things

our platform for augmented reality and the capabilities

So I'm actually going to go over here to get

So smartphone AR stems from this observation

But the ability of phones to see and understand

their environments, and really make sense of the world

So if you pointed your phone at this table,

it would allow you to take a picture of the table

or even a video of your friend climbing over the table.

But your phone wouldn't really have an understanding

of the geometry of the table, of its position

relative to the table as it moves through space.

And so what augmented reality seeks to do on smartphones

is to take all of this amazing advancement in computing power

and leverage it to bring new capabilities to your phone,

and to take your phone from beyond just the screen,

beyond its own little box, to expand it to understanding

So now, when my phone looks at this table,

my phone can actually track its position as it moves.

And we think at Google that augmented reality

And we've been excited to see some of the stuff

that you've built. And we've categorized it

augmented reality can be really, really great for applications.

So the first bucket is we think that augmented reality can

So recently, I was remodeling my kitchen.

All right, another poll-- how many of you

So if you've done that, you know that measurements

And what I needed to do was measure for a backsplash.

We were buying some subway tile for our kitchen.

And I, instead of taking a tape measure out,

actually pulled out my phone, went to my counter,

and measured from point A to B to C. And I did all of that

where I would have normally had to move in order

to get an accurate measurement with my tape measure.

from providing a better geometric understanding

AR can also be useful for shopping applications.

So recently, we had some very old chairs at my house.

And my partner and I were looking to replace them,

And we were getting into a debate over which

place it in the environment, see the exact size and scale

And we could have our arguments about inevitably

rather than exposing everyone to it at the store,

and be more targeted about how we made our purchase

and even buy this furniture online and feel much more

So that's how AR can just provide more utility

So imagine a character running across the floor,

jumping onto this chair, and jumping onto this table,

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What's new in AR (Google I/O '18)

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