More Gemini features are coming to Google TV

Google announced connected Wednesday a caller question of AI-powered features coming to Google TV, alongside a dedicated short-form video provender that brings YouTube Shorts straight to the location screen.

At the halfway of this update are much Gemini capabilities. Within the Gemini tab, a “Create” fastener lets users experimentation with generative AI tools Nano Banana and Veo. These are rolling retired archetypal connected Gemini-enabled TCL TVs successful the U.S., with broader instrumentality enactment expected later.

Nano Banana, Google’s image-generation and editing model, lets users alteration photos utilizing elemental dependable prompts. Users tin swap outfits, alteration backgrounds, oregon make wholly caller scenes. Google is positioning the diagnostic arsenic a shared, living-room experience, encouraging playful prompts similar asking the AI to marque “my dada deterioration a ridiculous outfit” to get a laughter from household and friends.

Veo, connected the different hand, allows users to make clips from scratch oregon animate inactive images by describing a scenario. For instance, “make my gramps moonwalk successful space.”

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Google Photos is besides getting an upgrade connected Google TV. With Gemini-powered search, users tin rapidly aboveground circumstantial memories, similar vacations oregon day parties, without digging done their full library. Results are displayed successful a browsable format, making it casual to presumption images full-screen oregon motorboat a slideshow. There’s besides a caller “Remix” diagnostic that lets users use creator styles specified arsenic watercolor oregon lipid coating to their photos. 

Meanwhile, “Dynamic Slideshows” introduces animated layouts, frames, and colour treatments.  Users tin crook immoderate Google Photos postulation into a vivid, TV-ready slideshow by selecting Google Photos successful the screensaver settings.

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Beyond AI tools, Google is besides leaning into the increasing popularity of short-form video. Coming soon, a caller “Short videos for you” enactment volition look connected the Google TV location screen, starting with contented from YouTube Shorts. 

The determination comes connected the heels of YouTube recently introducing an enactment to fell Shorts connected mobile, suggesting mixed idiosyncratic demand. Still, Google hints this could grow beyond Shorts successful the future, perchance to different platforms. Instagram has already expanded its TV app to Google TV devices successful the U.S. earlier this year.