The Amazon Echo Show 15 smart display already has this ability to detect your presence and even greet you with your screen name; you can even create different profiles to be used by multiple users. We now know that Google works on your Google Nest devicessuch as smart displays and speakers, so that they detect the presence of the user.
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Via Phone Arena, we know that Google is going to implement in its Google Nest smart speakers and displays the ability to detect your presencebut only when using the device by voice or touch on the screen.
Unlike the Amazon Echo Show 15, which visually detects the person With its camera, Google devices focus on voice and touch gestures, although it is already a great advantage for the user to be detected by Google Nest.
Yes, there is a device that will have this quality of the Echo Show 15, and it will be the Google Nest Hub second generation which thanks to the Soli sensorit will detect someone when they are near, outside of these two commands via voice and touch gestures.
The Soli es sensor able to understand human emotions at different scales, from the same heart rate to body movements, so we find ourselves waiting for what Google will be able to do with this sensor.
Even better, this new feature can be activated from settings so that it is not final and it depends on the user whether he likes to use it or not. Something similar to that button on the Nest Mini’s microphone that lets you turn it off if you want.
The Big G has confirmed that Nest smart speakers or displays, like those in Google Home, Home Max and Home Mini, will have this new feature to activate from the Home app.