It is very weird and at the same time the appealing investigation, I’ve heard about recently in the forums. Google is going to introduce a service that would determine what you are watching on your TV to offer relevant web-based information of different kinds. Sounds too sci-fi right? Wrong…it’s real.
The system worked out by Google Research will capture the sound your PC “hear” from your TV or other audio devices compare it to a database of mass media statistics and will serve web content based on the program you are watching or listening to. The developers promise the system will require no additional television-connected hardware and will be safe and protected.
Though it is not known now when the research and development results will be available as a service, the report that claimed by Google Research team members lists the following categories:
- Personalized information layers – will give you the personalized information related to events that happen in the program you’re watching;
- Social Communities – will let you find people that watch the same TV show and discuss it online;
- Real-time popularity rating – will let you look how many viewers are watching the particular show;
- TV-based bookmarks – gives an opportunity to save a show into your video library to have the possibility to watch it anytime you want.
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August 8th, 2006 at 8:52 am
Bentley suv…
I am Karin, very interesting article that contained the information I was searching for in Google, thanks….