Google’s large imaginative and prescient for Gemini, AI, and XR Leave a comment

Google introduced a bunch of latest stuff final week, from Gemini 2.0 and Venture Mariner to Android XR and Venture Moohan. As ever with Google, it looks like numerous stuff with out essentially a coherent plan behind it. However if you happen to look intently sufficient, and begin to put a few of the items collectively, the mix of these bulletins may add as much as one thing like Google’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for all the pieces.

On this episode of The Vergecast (our final Tuesday episode of the 12 months), The Verge’s Kylie Robison and Victoria Tune be part of the present to do some Google puzzling. They describe their experiences with all of Google’s new tasks and experiments, and clarify why Google thinks XR might be the killer app for AI — and vice versa.

After that, Chris Grant, group writer for The Verge and Polygon, joins to speak in regards to the two greatest 2025 tales in gaming: the upcoming launches of Grand Theft Auto VI and the Nintendo Swap 2. He explains why GTA is such an essential and enduring gaming franchise, why he’s assured the Swap 2 received’t be just like the Wii U, and why the entire gaming world is ready for these two issues so intently.

Lastly, we reply a query from the Vergecast Hotline (name 866-VERGE11 or e mail vergecast@theverge.com!), with some assist from The Verge’s writer Helen Havlak. Helen talked about final week that she makes use of Figma to handle her backyard, and let’s simply say you all had some follow-up questions on that. So Helen got here again to clarify her complete system.

If you wish to know extra about all the pieces we focus on on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Google:

Additionally, right here is a few screenshot inspo of Helen’s Figma backyard in all its to-scale glory.