{"id":501399,"date":"2026-03-03T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:56:06","slug":"big-google-home-update-lets-gemini-describe-live-camera-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/501399\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Google Home update lets Gemini describe live camera feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google Home chief <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnishKattukaran\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anish Kattukaran announced<\/a> several updates to the smart home platform that fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies. There\u2019s also one noteworthy new addition: the introduction of \u201cLive Search\u201d for your cameras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">So, instead of Gemini only knowing about things that have already happened, it now understands what it sees in your live camera feeds. That means you can ask things like, \u201cHey Google, is there a car in the driveway?\u201d Live Search requires a subscription to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/8836598\/type\/dlg\/https:\/\/store.google.com\/product\/google_home_premium?hl=en-US\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advanced plan of Google Home Premium<\/a>, which costs $20\/month or $200\/year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Gemini for Home is now also using updated models, a change that should improve the quality and accuracy of answers to general questions and help with playback of newly released songs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Gemini now understands context better, too, which should improve how it targets smart devices. For example, saying \u201cturn off the kitchen\u201d will now target just the lights in the room, instead of every smart device. And commands like \u201cturn off all the lights\u201d will apply to your current location, and not target the lights in a secondary location \u2014 like a cabin or parent\u2019s home \u2014 that you also manage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google Home chief Anish Kattukaran announced several updates to the smart home platform that fix a long list&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[168,3,5254,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-501399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-smart-home","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}