Google I/O 2016

https://events.google.com/io2016/

by emirozer • 10 years ago

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outside1234• 10 years ago

They are having it outside at Shoreline? oh boy.

RyJones• 10 years ago

weather in summer in the Bay Area isn't very risky.

kyrra• 10 years ago

The opinions stated here are my own, not necessarily those of Google.

I attended I/O a few years ago (prior to joining Google) and really enjoyed the Moscone Center. Mainly because there was lots of hotels and restaurants in the area. Lodgings around the Google campus are pretty sparse, this feels like a mistake to me. Being able to walk to your hotel after a long day of focusing/listening was definitely nice.

That said, being able to visit the Google Campus if you've never been there is really nice. As well, I'm betting this will greatly reduce the costs of hosting the event and those funds can be used in a different way. And with Google's fleet of buses, it looks like they will pickup and drop people off at the hotels they have rooms blocked off at.

EDIT: as drl42 points out, the mascone center is undergoing renovation and probably wasn't available.

etqwzutewzu• 10 years ago

It may be related to the fact this year is a special edition: the 10th Google IO edition.

From the website: "To celebrate a decade of working closely with the developer community, we’ll be hosting I/O in our backyard at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA, a venue that has played host to some of the world’s biggest entertainers and events."

pbarnes_1• 10 years ago

Hosting this in MV is just... weird. All the hotels suck, there's no food, nothing touristy to do, etc etc.

I don't understand your note about costs. Google has infinite money. Even mid-tier meetings are held at Moscone, so I don't think it's that expensive.

Are the I/O hordes really going to be visiting the Google Campus? For what reason?

It's pretty weird.

st3v3r• 10 years ago

"As well, I'm betting this will greatly reduce the costs of hosting the event and those funds can be used in a different way."

If it were a different company, maybe. But this is Google. They have effectively unlimited funds.

boulos• 10 years ago

Moscone West, where I/O is usually held is not undergoing renovation. Just the main (North and South) buildings.

CameronBanga• 10 years ago

Hasn't this been announced for a while? Is there a reason this got submitted? Did the schedule just get released or something? Title should probably clarify.

plexicle2• 10 years ago

Schedule was released about an hour ago.

d33• 10 years ago

Mythbusting HTTPS: Squashing security’s urban legends

This one sounded interesting until I read the the abstract... I was hoping to hear some reflections on actual security.

bound008• 10 years ago

Is the entire event going to be outside? Or are they going to use a tent in the vast parking lot space like they do for festivals?

chipperyman573• 10 years ago

It doesn't look like they're really talking about anything new this year. A little bit about android auto but as far as I can tell, that's it.

psbp• 10 years ago

This happens every year. They don't announce a lot of sessions until the keynote.

eva1984• 10 years ago

Wish they give more details about tensorflow and related stuff.

Otherwise it is going to be Google Frontend I/O once again just like last year.

PaulHoule• 10 years ago

huh?

rtkwe2• 10 years ago

Hope we hear more from ATAP. They had some really interesting projects last year I'm hoping make it further towards market.

Cyph0n• 10 years ago

Sorry, but what's ATAP?

kllrnohj2• 10 years ago

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ATAP

bduerst• 10 years ago

Think Google X, but with 2 year instead of 10 year technologies.

example: https://www.google.com/atap/project-soli/

k-mcgrady2• 10 years ago

Very strange you were downvoted. It's Google's 'Advanced Technology and Projects' group. Incubator run by an ex-DARPA guy. Projects are given two years.

freyr• 10 years ago

The most interesting ATAP-related news so far this year is its director moving to Facebook.

I worked previously on an ATAP project when I was a university postdoc (much of the engineering work gets farmed out to universities and subcontractors). Eventually I began wondering why I was working fifty hours a week for Google on a postdoc salary. It's a strange arrangement to wind up in.

Simorgh• 10 years ago

I thought the most interesting news from ATAP (last year) was project Jacquard [1]. It seemed very exciting and promising, but it doesn't seem that the tech has made it to market.

[1] https://www.google.com/atap/project-jacquard/

rtkwe2• 10 years ago

Jacquard was neat, my favorites were Vault and Soli though.

tostitos1979• 10 years ago

Umm .. how do you get a ticket?

pmilla1606• 10 years ago

I think you had to register. https://events.google.com/io2016/registration/apply/

ProblemFactory• 10 years ago

Google I/O tickets are difficult to get - you apply, and they choose who can purchase a ticket by lottery.

One of the reasons for this is that they used to hand out swag worth more than the ticket price (latest Nexus phones, etc).

This makes sense for Google - increasing developer mindshare and experience on their platforms is worth more than the device cost. But this also had the effect of "everyone" applying for Google I/O to get the swag, even if you are not too excited about attending the talks.

netinstructions• 10 years ago

Lots of Project Tango + AR/VR presentations. I'm willing to bet the next Google/Nexus phones will have tech from Project Tango built in and become standard on future Android phones. Lots of apps/games could be built for it (and some that have been already built will debut during I/O). It could be one of those things that differentiates Androids from iPhones. Take a look at the 'Introducing Project Tango Area Learning' talk for May 18 for an example.

More info on Project Tango - https://www.google.com/atap/project-tango/

therein• 10 years ago

Project Tango sounds really cool. Dammit, traffic is going to be unbearable near Shoreline.

rasz_pl• 10 years ago

tango is not the only game in town

SVO: Fast Semi-Direct Monocular Visual Odometry 25 Feb 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YnIMfw6bJY

RealityVoid• 10 years ago

SVO is very interesting, but Tango is much more than that. Tango also has hardware for depth perception, something that SVO does not offer.

As a side-note, the guys at ETH Zurich are friggin' amazing and they do so much cool research. A big fan here!

dave20004• 10 years ago

I wonder if I'm going to be able to download the version of Android which was announced at last year's Google I/O before they announce another one this year?

Don't ever change, Google.

chrisbroadfoot• 10 years ago

Huh? Android 6.0 Marshmallow? It's on my phone right now.

And the next version (N) is already announced: https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html

This comment does not really make sense.

kayone• 10 years ago

I'm guessing he is running a non-nexus device.

tonfa• 10 years ago

It wasn't released? https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html

plexicle2• 10 years ago

It sounds like you have beef with your phone manufacturer and/or carrier. Your anger with Google is entirely misplaced.

dave20004• 10 years ago

I'm not angry, just disappointed.

nialv7• 10 years ago

I can't find ARA in the schedule :(

julianpye• 10 years ago

Lots of Firebase - wild guess, but I assume Firebase support will be integrated in Android Studio extending/maybe replacing the current Cloud-Endpoints feature (which is unfortunate, because I use it extensively).

jlhonora• 10 years ago

I hope they won't do that. I believe those approaches do a disservice to Android in general.

For instance, it really annoys me when Android Studio pushes you to add app indexing stuff, which in turn needs Play Services to work. Play Services unnecessarily bloats my APKs, so I go great lengths to avoid it.

I prefer a more agnostic Android Studio (and Android in general) rather than gravitating towards Google sponsored add-ons.

wiradikusuma• 10 years ago

How you do in-app and push notif (GCM) without Play?

pjmlp• 10 years ago

Cool: Talks about NDK, ART, and maybe just maybe, they will fix audio latency.

Not so cool: Game keynotes seem to keep spreading Play Services PR instead of talking about making games, available frameworks and tooling, like on Apple and Microsoft conferences.

emehrkay• 10 years ago

I found a bug in Safari os x: don't be logged in, go to the schedule, expand one of the topics, click the plus sign and you'll get a message that says something like "log in to save" in the lower left. Now you can no longer click the window shade to close the popup, you have to click the 'Full Schedule" link.

I'm in love with the 2d/3d font and the way it animates both in the color cycling and number changing into one another. Its one of those things that I wish I would had thought of doing (knew how to do)

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