Like all its major competitors, Google is incorporating AI into pretty much all its apps and services. And one of the company’s recent AI efforts in the consumer space is Gemini for Android TV. Although Gemini hasn’t landed on the majority of Google TV devices, we now have some idea about what new features it might offer when it’s available to more devices.
Earlier today, we reported that Google is working on a feature that will check if you’re still watching a channel on Google TV. This sounds very similar to what Netflix’s “Are you still watching?” prompt does, though details are scarce at the moment. On top of this, Google is working on another set of features that are powered by AI and have a completely different purpose.
Google TV will let you generate and watch videos
In an APK teardown of the Google TV app, folks over at Android Authority have spotted mentions of as many as five new features, including Sparkify, Scene Style, Visual Style, Describe your idea, and Generate Video. While a few of these are self-explanatory in what they want to do, Sparkify is something that the company talked about at this year’s Google I/O event.
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Based on what we already know from Google, Sparkify is an upcoming feature that will let you create videos on topics that you’re interested in. All you have to do is enter the topic and choose a visual style and mood, and Sparkify will create and play the video.
There is no clarity about whether the other four features are related to Sparkify, but the visual style capability is likely associated with it. It’s an educated guess because Google’s previous demo video of Sparkify showed how users can choose the visual style before generating the video. However, the remaining names also sound like they are designed to let users add more details, including scene style, to generate the video.
Google officially confirmed that more Gemini capabilities are “coming soon” to Google TV, but it never mentioned what features it’s planning to introduce. But since evidence of these AI features has surfaced, we can safely say that the company is seriously considering adding them to Google TV in the future. Since Gemini for Google TV will become broadly available later this year, we expect the features to arrive around the same time.
