Google I/O 2017 top 5 major announcements: Google Lens, Android O and more!

Google kicked off its I/O event with some interesting announcements for a lot of its products. Let’s take a quick at the top major announcements from the event.

1. Google Assistant

Google Assistant is now coming to iOS with a standalone iPhone app. Scott Huffman, the VP of engineering for Assistant also announced that Google new languages will be soon available on Assistant such as French, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese and the company would later add Italian, Spanish and Korean. These languages will also be supported on Assistant through Android, Google Home, iOS, and third party Assistant devices too. Google Home will also be launched in more countries including Canada, Austrailia, France, Germany and Japan.

2. Google Lens

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new initiative called Lens – a set of vision-based computing capabilities that can understand what you’re looking at and help you take action based on that information. It will be first shipped onto Android, Photos and Assistant. With Lens, you’ll be able to point your phone’s camera at a flower and have it automatically identify the flower for you. He also explained how one can edit out the “fence you were forced to shoot through at your child’s …read more