The key to success goes through augmented reality and the use of Gemini

Android was born as a startup project, outside the circle of megacorpations. But Google saw the potential he had and bought it in 2005 To be able to create its own operating system which gave it importance in smartphones that Microsoft had in mobiles. It was a huge success in countries like Europe, especially because of the way the company succeeded.

Instead of charging licenses like Microsoft with Windows (then tried to reproduce in Windows Phone), Google allowed manufacturers to use it for freehaving to go through their criteria if they wanted the applications of the company to have installed in their mobiles. This has led many brands to stop investing in their own operating system.

In this way, they had the opportunity to fight a rival that had emerged from nothing: Apple. First -level mobile manufacturers in the 20th century, as Nokia or Siemens, they saw how Cupertino's business damaged their sales, but they did not know how to turn over in time. Other companies that entered the sector at the time, such as Samsung or Xiaomi, saw what the future would be and bet.

Cameras as origin

Google's turn when Android bought was no less. The system, which was designed by Andy Rubin and his team since 2003, I was designed for digital cameras, not for mobile phones. However, in Google, they were clear that pocket computer science would be the big stage in the industry and wanted to use Android to direct it.

It was the first big round, to go from the design of a system for the cameras to do it for mobiles. The second, a little minor, came from the hand of the iPhone and is that when Steve Jobs presented Apple's first mobile on Google, they realized that they had to change the approach. They developed what was clearly an alternative to BlackberryA mobile with a non-touch screen and a huge physical keyboard.

The turn was not completely complete, and the first mobile with this system, the HTC Dream, was launched with a sliding keyboard. However, the HTC Magic and the HTC Hero, the next two, have already come with a touch screen as the main form of introduction, although they maintained trackball as a second control form. Again, would spend shortly until the physical keyboards disappear.

Environmental calculation

20 years have passed since the purchase of Android by Google and it is clear that now this system is more than a mobile system. Google uses it on tablets, in cars with Android Automotive and clocks with Wearos. But he also wants his office operating system, Chromeos, is more integrated with him.

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Astra project

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The fact is that It is nothing more than the last section of this first stage of AndroidAnd now we are starting to see the first sketches of what will be the second. It will be designed for environmental IT, leaving aside pocket computer science. Android XR is an already advanced project, although we have not yet seen it in a commercial product.

This environmental IT refers to computers we have around us but we do not use directlyBut almost in guarantee. Part of the home automation of our houses, such as speakers or smart screens, is designed with this concept in mind. The next thing will be to go to glasses.

Samsung and Google work together on devices that will be put on our faceNot in our hand. We could see the Samsung Moonhan project, virtual and increased reality glasses reminiscent of the Apple Vision Pro. But The most important thing will be the arrival of smaller glassesAnd advantages, which can be transported at any time.

Google has already tried this approach with Google Glass, but clearly arrived too early. The brands as an objective now bet on it, with the meta-ray-ban, which is a success taking into account the niche market to which they aspire. And prepare much more ambitious things. The idea of ​​Google (and other companies) is that glasses replace mobile phones for many tasksIn the same way that mobile phones replaced computers, even if they did not eradicate them.

Ok gemini

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Current technology does not allow the creation of smart glasses that can be economicalPowerful and versatile, and even less than they can be produced in large quantities, but the same goes for the end of the century with smartphones and we saw how two decades have completely changed industry.

A new interface

The fact is that the use of These new devices will involve a new handling formIn which the fingers and screens will already be out of the equation, at least as we understand today. This implies that Android should evolve to function otherwise. And that's what Google is working on.

Gemini is his great commitment to artificial intelligence, and it will be the future of interfaces, of what Android will be in the medium and long term when adapting to other types of devices. The graphic interfaces will continue present, but Vocal commands and commands and screen without keyboard or screen will be much more common.

The future that augurs is much more possible for 10 years ago, and it is something Google knows and does not want the same thing to happen to Nokia. You should not be surprised that Android is an operating system for touch screens and that it must evolve it for the next iteration of technological products that will accompany us on an up -to -date day. That's why Google's bet for AI is so important.

In the company, they know. In an interview with El Español – Omicrono in Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem on Google, Google's manager said that they were “very excited not only with mixed reality, but also with augmented reality. We show prototypes that we had created. It is a new Android format very exciting because it is very natural for the advances of AI.” This is why they make betting and purchases that show us how the future of the company will be in the medium term.

The person responsible for the Android XR platform and products, Shahram on the left, exposed their vision in a TED discourse in which they explain how augmented reality and virtual reality converge, and how artificial intelligence has an important role to play.

These chatbots and applications that include, as vocal conversations, text summaries and use of these years almost as an older and advisers, will make new devices move away from what we have understood as normal. And Android may have a lot to say there if Google knows how to read its cards.