Google I/O 2018 Day 3
by Juvar Abrera
Yesterday, I went to different booths/sandboxes but there are some that I haven’t been to so that will be my goal. My goal is to visit all sandboxes and learn from them.
The first booth I visited was the AR and VR booth. Basically, they have a demo app where the it can place augmented objects into 3d space via the camera and it’s really awesome to think that there could be lots of applications for this. As you can see on the photo below, the augmented TV is on the app and is placed on top of this real table.
There’s also a demo where a 2d image is transformed into 3d in AR. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take a picture since I was amazed while using the demo. Here’s some of the photos I took instead.
Another booth I explored was the Android Things booth. I’m not really into hardware or IoT but I saw lots of cool stuffs, too.
The next booth was the Design and Accessibility. I learned more stuff like this app called Lookout where: the camera will scan for words, sentences, paragraphs and transform it into text; and looks for objects and even people. Lookout is designed to assist blind and visually impaired to be more independent. It gives user audio cues on what’s on their surroundings.
Other than that, I get to met a Googler on Material Design.
If you’ll look at the Material Design Guidelines documentation for the web, you’ll see that the classes used for the components are a bit long like, for example, cards. I was told that they intentionally did that for it to work on older versions of Material Design, and for it to be flexible in other frameworks. If you’re using Polymer, their team is working on Polymer components for the new Material Design Components and I can’t wait to check that out.
Lastly, I visited the Android booth and tried using Android P since I won’t be able to use it in 1–2 years in the Philippines. If only I had a Pixel. Lol.
Yahoo! Oh, I mean Google! I finished all the booths! Got lots of schwags along the way so yay. Right after visiting the booths, I visited the community lounge and hang out with other GDGs and Googlers.
Well, that’s it! To wrap things up from day 1, day 2, and day 3 of Google I/O 2018, I learned a lot of different Google technologies outside my specializations; saw a lot of cool demos; met and talked to Googlers in different areas; met new friends across different parts of the globe; and finally, I had so much fun!
Thank you for reading!
— Juvar Abrera