The tech giant announces some new feature for it popular streaming hardware at the Google I/O developer conference.
Google are adding a batch by new features to it has Chromecast streaming media stick in hopes that consumers will find uses as the device beyond watching videos.
This includes viewing personal photos through Google Plus the company's social network and the ability to cast anything from your mobile devices to the biggers screen. The update which are expected to the roll after this year include allowing any Android device in the rooms to connect with the Chrome cast without connecting to a WiFi network.
Rishi Chandra who lead the team working on Google TV product or demonstrated the device new mirroring capabilities to the roughly 6,000 attendee at the Google I/O developers conference in the San Francisco. Chandra started up the Google Earth on his phone and the cast it to the TV screen. He also used his phone camera to the scan the crowd and the cast the visual onto the larger displays.
Everythings on your phones will now show up on your TV he said.
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference held the earlier this month at the same location focused on a small number of categories -- PCs or mobile devices and a few media services among them -- but Google was expected at its own confab to tackle a wider array of it businesses including search or tablets and the smart-home devices.
Chandra said Google's Chrome cast is now a top-selling streaming device in the US or UK or France or Japan and the Canada. The stick users are more active on Google's YouTube video platform compared with any other streaming device he said. When Chrome cast first launched it worked for a limited number of apps but was a cheap alternative to other streaming devices.
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