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Sources: Google launching a new Nest Hub in 2021 that uses Soli for sleep tracking
9to5google.com ^ | 01/07/2021

Posted on 01/07/2021 9:03:21 PM PST by BenLurkin

Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group first unveiled Soli in 2015, but it did not launch on a consumer device until 2019. The sensor lets you perform air gestures over the Pixel 4 to play/pause and skip/rewind tracks, as well as snooze alarms and silence phone calls. It’s also used to speed up face unlock by detecting when users reach for their phone and turning on the components needed for recognition. Third-party Android developers can incorporate the tech, which emits radar waves, into games and other interactive experiences. Meanwhile, the new Nest Thermostat also leverages it for improved motion sensing to wake the screen when you walk by.

Soli will soon be used to track sleep. Embedded into this upcoming Nest Hub, Google is embracing how Smart Displays are often placed on bedside tables as alarm clocks and speakers. The original Nest Hub is more likely to be used in sensitive areas since it lacks

The FCC filing at the start of this week revealed that the Soli sensor placed in the Nest Hub will have technical capabilities identical to the Pixel 4. Google has long touted precise and fine gesture recognition, like spinning a virtual dial or adjusting a slider. This should translate to detecting any body movements you make at night. For comparison, the Nest Thermostat uses a more limited version of Soli to detect general motion.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: google; nest; soli

1 posted on 01/07/2021 9:03:21 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Radar. In the bedroom. Nope. Can’t see anything wrong with this at all. Wonder what they’ll call the new PornHub channel... ;)


2 posted on 01/07/2021 9:04:27 PM PST by Retrofitted
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Now the FBI and SWAT won't have to depend on remote imaging of where "hostiles" are located within buildings.

They can just tap into Soli.

And if they get sent to the wrong address, shoot the dog, and scare the children...

So Soli...

3 posted on 01/07/2021 9:07:35 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: BenLurkin

I wouldn’t have any of that crap in my house.


4 posted on 01/07/2021 9:08:13 PM PST by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: BenLurkin

I can’t wait to not but it.


5 posted on 01/07/2021 9:11:55 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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Now that you said that... I can't find it, but I vaguely remember Google was working on some weird "echo location" (perhaps; I can only remember the mock-up) type thing YEARS ago that would allow them to track people and objects inside a building, like an internal GPS...

It's getting to the point I may never sleep again.
6 posted on 01/07/2021 9:28:59 PM PST by Retrofitted
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Anyone who willingly uses any Google technology when there are alternatives needs to educate themselves on what Google is: Evil.

I used to use Google all the time, and at some point, the results I began to get back were...well...not what I wanted. I found what I was looking for several pages back, and I believe it is standard behavior for a lot of people not to go that far. So they end up clicking on what Google provides to them.

I began paying attention, and realized that even though I KNEW that Google "shaped" its returns...I came to realize it wasn't doing it strictly from a commerce perspective which is what I expected...it was doing it from a political perspective, and an extreme Leftist anti-American perspective.

I had never paid much attention to the stupid "Google Doodles", almost as if I were blind to them. When I began paying attention to them at the same time I began viewing their political shaping of returns, it confirmed my conclusions.

What really shook me as it took several years for this to fully sink in, is that there are probably 4 billion computer users on Earth today who view Google as the font of information about...history, politics, science, you name it. And Google has decided it wants to manipulate the thoughts and conclusions of people using its product using the subtle forces of AI, to mold and shape "correct thought" in people.

Bill Whittle did a masterful video recently called The Stolen Election Part II: Stoners and Reptiles

The whole video is worth watching, but his interpretation and presentation of the Big Tech interference in the election is critical. Near the end, if you go to the 14 minute mark of the video, he discusses a video, created for top level Google executives (and meant only for their eyes) that was leaked to the public called "The Selfish Ledger".

Bill Whittle calls it the most frightening thing he has yet seen from the Left, and I agree with him.

It describes how Google views our "ledger" to be compiled by the compilation of our online activities into a "fingerprint" of who and what we are, and likens it to our DNA that identifies us, and how they wish to alter that DNA-like "Ledger" to manipulate people to "think the right way".

Chilling. Even though you sound like you understand this aspect of Google fully, I highly recommend it.

7 posted on 01/07/2021 9:30:21 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Retrofitted

I believe there was an important case where Scalia said that police couldn’t use evidence they gained by using such a system. That people should expect a certain level of privacy even if technology existed that could locate them to a particular place within their homes.


8 posted on 01/07/2021 11:20:40 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Matrix is good.


9 posted on 01/08/2021 5:09:58 AM PST by moovova
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