Osterloh: We have this idea that, in the future,

you can get help wherever you are,

for whatever you need. It's almost like it's in the air.

Thurston: Hey. What's up, man?

Osterloh: How's it going? Have you seen any of this stuff?

Thurston: Never been here. Osterloh: Come on in.

Thurston: Thank you.

Kwee: I'm not necessarily designing this for myself.

I'm designing it for people out there

that really could use an assistant in their home.

MacIntosh: There's a lot of sensors, and processors, and machine learning.

Things that are uniquely Google.

Olsson: When you combine the ultimate piece of technology

and something so human that's where magic happens.

Giusti: This vision, to me, it's really compelling,

'cause we can create a new generation of products that truly helpful.

Poupyrev: It helps you, from the background...

Thurston: Right. Poupyrev: Run in the foreground,

and the foreground is your life.

Thurston: Big picture. What's the endgame?

Osterloh: It's about making it easier every day.

Thurston: Making what easier?

Osterloh: Life. Thurston: Making life easier?

Osterloh: Yes.

Thurston: Let's take a look.

Person: Here we go.

Osterloh: Good morning.

Morning. Thanks so much for joining us here, in New York City,

and for those on the live stream for joining us, around the world.

Thanks so much.

We're gonna spend the next hour talking about the problems

we're working to solve for our users and the ways we're delivering help

for the way people need it when they need it.

We'll also take you into our labs with writer and cultural commentator

Baratunde Thurston, to hear from the folks at Google

who personally develop, design, and bring these products to life.

Now, if you look across all of Google's products,

from Search to Maps, Gmail to Photos,

our mission is to bring

a more helpful Google for you.

Creating tools that help you increase your knowledge,

success, health, and happiness.

Now, when we apply that mission to hardware and services

it means creating products like these.

New Pixel phones, wearables, laptops, and Nest devices for the home.

Each one is thoughtfully and responsibly designed,

to help you in your every day without intruding on your life.

Now, in the mobile era, smartphones changed the world.

It's super useful to have a powerful computer everywhere you are,

but it's even more useful when computing is anywhere you need it.

Always available to help.

Now, you heard me talk about this idea with Baratunde

that helpful computing can be all around you.

Ambient computing.

Your devices work together with services and AI,

so help is anywhere you want it, and it's fluid.

The technology just fades into the background when you don't need it.

So the devices aren't the center of the system.

You are. That's our vision for ambient computing.

The Google Assistant plays a critical role here.

It pulls everything together and gives you a familiar,

natural way to get the help you need.

Our users tell us they find the Google Assistant to be smart,

user friendly, and reliable.

And that's so important for ambient technology.

Interactions have to feel natural and intuitive.

Here's an example. If you want to listen to music,

the experience should be the same whether you're in the kitchen,

you're driving in your car, or hanging out with friends.

No matter what you're doing,

you should just be able to say the name of a song,

and the music just plays.

Without you having to pull out a phone, and tap on screens, or push buttons.

So think about how this vision plays out in the home

where ambient technology can make life so much easier.

When you wake up in the morning your home

knows what you need to start your day.

You can get your commute, find out when your first meeting starts,

maybe play some music on whatever speaker or screen is nearby.

And when you leave your house your lights, thermostat, door locks,

security cameras--they all just know what to do.

And your devices go silent and turn off notifications at night

when you want to relax without technology interrupting

or distracting you.

So throughout your home technology works as a single system,

instead of a bunch of devices doing their own thing.

Now, we can bring this ambient computing vision to gaming, as well.

With Stadia, our new generation cloud gaming platform,

we're aiming to deliver the best games ever made

to almost any screen in your life.

So I'm excited to share an update with y'all.

Stadia will be available on November 19th,

so you'll be able to play games wherever you want.

On your TV, your laptop, even your Pixel,

which will be the first phone to support Stadia when it launches.

We're also creating a few areas

to create more human interactions with technology,

like motion sense and the new Google Assistant for Pixel 4.

So instead of being glued to your phone,

you can use quick gestures and voice commands

and then get back to your day.

That push for quicker, more natural interactions

is leading us in new hardware directions, too,

extending the phone's capabilities in new ways.

Let's take a look.

Thurston: This is clearly a time machine.

Olsson: Yeah, exactly.

Thurston: And you're pretending to use it to test ear buds.

That's a great cover story. Right.

Left. Up. Down. Hello.

Olsson: Hi.

Thurston: Isabelle? I know you and your team

led the design for the ear buds.

Olsson: We really wanted it to just be a simple,

tiny little dot floating in your ear.

What is a simpler form than a circle, and how insanely tiny can we make it?

'Cause there's, like, two computers in there.

Thurston: Those are floating computers in your head?

Olsson: Yes, yeah.

Thurston: Do you remember how you felt when you first got the design brief

for what these ear buds were supposed to do?

Yip: I think it's crazy.

MacIntosh: Certainly, the assembly is the really challenging part of this.

All of these pieces have to go together with sub-millimeter precision.

I don't think I would have imagined we'd be able to build things

with this kind of processing power this small.

There's a lot of sensors and processors.

Little bit like building a ship in the bottle.

What we've managed to do here is not just make great headphones,

but really putting in all of the other things that are uniquely Google

about this--the ability to process your voice.

Thurston: Hello. MacIntosh: And to make a call clear,

even when you're riding a bicycle down the sidewalk.

Thurston: Yeah, yeah. Okay.

MacIntosh: A lot of software. A lot of machine learning.

It's the magic that powers the product.

Turns a great set of headphones into a Google set of headphones.

Osterloh: All right.

That was a sneak peek at the all-new Google Pixel buds.

So you can start to get an idea of what ambient computing feels like.

With Pixel buds help is there when you want it,

and the experience just comes to you, even when your phone's not in your hand.

For instance, you can get hands-free access to the assistant.

So instead of turning to your phone for quick tasks, you can just say,

"Hey, Google," and ask the assistant for whatever you need.

Resume your podcast, send a quick text, get directions,

or even understand another language with Google Translate.

Pixel buds even have a long-range Bluetooth connection

which keeps you connected,

even when your phone isn't by your side,

so you can wear them in the yard when your phone might be charging inside

or leave your phone in a locker, if you're working out in a gym.

Indoors, Pixel buds'll stay connected up to three rooms away,

and outside, they'll work across an entire football field.

Of course, Pixel buds won't be truly helpful,

unless they're also great headphones.

They have to have excellent sound quality.

They've gotta be comfortable to wear all the time,

and they need to last long enough to be useful.

That's a lot to ask of a pair of headphones,

especially because they also need to be unobtrusive too.

So we did some intricate origami with Pixel buds,

to make sure everything fit.

Custom speakers. Sensors. Custom battery.

That's usually what makes these wireless ear buds

stick so far out of your ears,

but Pixel buds gives you plenty of battery life

to get through your day.

You'll have five hours of continuous listening time on a single charge

and up to 24 hours when you're using a wireless charging case.

Now, even with all those components and long battery life,

you can see Pixel buds fits almost flush with the ear.

They're so small and light it's easy to forget you're wearing 'em.

At the same time, Pixel buds deliver excellent sound quality.

Now, you typically have to choose

between great sound and awareness of the world around you,

but Pixel buds gives you both with a unique hybrid design.

The ear buds gently seal the ear for rich bass and clear highs,

and the spatial vent underneath reduces that plugged-ear feeling

and lets through just the right amount of environmental sound.

On the software side, Pixel buds respond to your surroundings

with a new adaptive sound. The volume dynamically adjusts,

as you move from the quiet of your home to a subway or a noisy cafe,

and you don't have to constantly raise or lower the volume.

When you're on a call, beam-forming mikes focus on your voice

while voice accelerometers detect speech through your jawbone,

so a loud restaurant or a windy day

won't get in the way of your conversation.

Pixel buds will be available in the spring of next year,

and we'll share more details in the coming months,

including a few of the helpful experiences

that make good use of the on-device machine learning chips.

So as you can see, this ambient computing era's going to bring

all kinds of new interfaces, services, and devices,

but it's also introducing new challenges.

When computing's always available designing for security and privacy

becomes more important than ever.

You need to know that your data's safe.

Protecting your data and respecting your privacy

are at the core of everything we do.

We've designed strong protections across our hardware family,

like the Titan security chip in our phones and laptops.

Titan protects your most personal on-device information,

your OS data, passwords, even information in third-party apps.

And we know that privacy is personal which is why you have the controls,

so that you can choose the settings you want that are right for you.

We make it easy to access simple on/off controls,

including turning cameras and mikes on your Nest devices off.

And you can now delete assistant data just by asking.

Everything is designed with your privacy in mind,

and you'll see examples of that throughout today's presentation.

Now, we're also gonna talk today about our work

to create more sustainable products and processes.

Developing sustainable solutions to mass production and consumption

is one of the biggest challenges we face today,

as an industry.

It impacts all of us, and it will for generations to come.

Now, we believe Google has both the ability

and the responsibility to create systemic change.

As a company, we've been focused on sustainability for a long time.

Google's operations have been carbon neutral since 2007,

and for the past two years,

we've matched all of Google's energy consumption

with 100% renewable energy.

And we're continuing to expand access to clean energy to more people,

including our suppliers and the communities

where our products are made.

So today we're announcing that Google's committing to invest

another $150 million

in renewable energy projects in key manufacturing regions.

Our investment...

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Our investment, alongside financial

and manufacturing partners,

aims to catalyze $1.5 billion of capital.

Now, this'll generate approximately the same amount of renewable energy

as the electricity used to manufacture

Made by Google products.

So when you choose to buy hardware products

from Google you're contributing to bringing renewable energy

to communities around the world.

Sustainable, secure and private, and of course helpful.

That's the Google way to make hardware and services.

Now, we're excited to share with you

how we build these principles into our products,

and here's Ivy Ross, who leads our design team,

who's gonna talk about some of our recent work