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What Is Google Home? We Explain Google's Smart Home Platform

Google Home is a smart speaker (similar to Amazon's Echo) that uses artificial intelligence to answer your questions and obey certain commands.

For quite some time, Amazon's Echo was the only prominent smart speaker around. But soon, it will be in a battle for supremacy with Google Home.

Google says the $129 Google Home is like having your own personal Google on call, which lets you do everything from cue up music and YouTube videos to answer your questions and control smart home devices like the Nest thermostat .

So what exactly will Google Home do for you and how does it work? Here's your quick guide.

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Google Home is similar to Amazon's Echo, offering a compact design that helps the device fit into the home or office. Unlike the Echo, the cylindrical device's base will come in several colors, including white, black and blue. The bases are detachable, so users can swap colors whenever they wish. The top, white component is where the "brains" live. From there, the microphone listens to commands and you can press the mute button to silence audio.

Living under that shell is what Google calls a "Hi-Fi" speaker, featuring a 2-inch driver and dual, 2-inch, passive radiators. Google Home also comes with a far-field microphone. The device connects to wireless networks with its 802.11ac Wi-Fi chip and works with both Google's Android and Apple's iOS platforms.

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A Smart Assistant

Google Assistant stands at the center of the Google Home experience.

This virtual personal assistant uses artificial intelligence to find things on the internet, set events and reminders, play music and videos, and much more. Better yet, Google Home will be continually updated, meaning the smart virtual assistant will only get smarter as time goes on.

You activate Google Assistant by saying, "OK, Google," to Google Home. Once the program is turned on, you can ask it for answers to sophisticated mathematical formulas, find out the score on a sports game, set alarms, add events to a calendar and check the traffic around a route. Google Home can also control smart home devices like the Nest thermostat or Philips Hue, turning the device into a smart home hub.

Google was quick to note that many of the things you might typically search for on Google.com are also accessible through Assistant.

MORE: Siri vs. Alexa - Why Amazon Won Our 300-Question Showdown

An Entertainment Platform

While Google Home is designed in part to be a handy assistant, it might also find a way into your home due to its musical abilities.

Google Home ships with support for a wide range of services, including Google Play Music, Spotify , Pandora and TuneIn. To access those services, you simply need to have an account and link it to Google Home. From there, you can request that Home play your favorite playlists on Spotify or the new track from your favorite artists on YouTube Music.

If podcasts are more your speed, Google Home has you covered. It also includes support for a wide range of radio stations, including news channels and music radio.

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And just in case you're a fan of a service that isn't supported with Google Home, the device features the ability to stream audio from your phone through phone mirroring or with help from Chromecast-enabled audio apps.

Google Home was designed to communicate and work with other Google Home devices. So you can buy multiple Google Homes for your house, put them in different rooms, and sync them so you can listen to tracks all over the house.

If you don't want to shell out cash for more than one Google Home, though, it's also capable of syncing with other products, like Chromecast Audio or speakers with Chromecast built in. 

Google Home vs. Amazon Echo and Alexa

Amazon is the clear leader in the smart speaker space, as its Alexa assistant now offers more than 3,000 skills. So Google Home certainly has some catching up to do. However, the Google Home speaker is $50 cheaper than the Amazon Echo, and (for better or for worse), Google already knows a lot about you that will personalize your experience more.

On the other hand, only Amazon lets you add its assistant to any speaker via the company's cheap $49 Echo Dot. For now, Google doesn't offer a similar accessory.

So, How Can I Get It?

As of this writing, Google Home is available for pre-order at the Google Store, Best Buy, Target and Walmart. For now, Google is selling the white Home version and will offer different base colors to customers in the future. If you want to swap out your base for a new color at that point, you'll need only unscrew it from the top component and screw it into the new base.

Google Home will go on sale for $129. The smart home device will start shipping to customers on Nov. 2.

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In Spring 2018 Google launched their VR Tour Creator. This free tools lets anyone create their own virtual tour that can be viewed on a computer, tablet, or phone web browser, or using Google Cardboard. When creating a tour, one has the option on utilizing any of the street-view images on Google Maps, or uploading their own images using a 360° camera or iOS apps like "Google Street View" or "Google Cardboard". Creator also allows you to add points of interest as well as audio to your tour locations.

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Google Tour Creator has the ability to have a huge impact in teaching and learning. Teachers can create tours that allow students to get a stronger sense of "Setting" when reading a novel or learning about a historical event. Students can create tours showing what they have learned about a place. Google Tour Creator also has templates available so that users do not have to necessarily start from scratch.

Some of the educational uses of this tool may include:

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What you need to get started​

• A speaker or display.
• Latest version of the Google Home app.
• Latest version of the Google app.
• A Google Account.
• Has Android 9.0 or later.
• Works with 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi network (a WPA-2 Enterprise network won't work).
• Has Bluetooth turned on.
• An Internet connection and secure wireless network.
• If you already use Duo for video calling, make sure that you use the same Google Account in Duo and in the Google Home app.
• If the device has been used before, factory reset your speaker or display before you continue.

• Follow the in-app steps. Note: You can opt out of some settings, like Voice Match or personal results. You can also change your device settings at any time after you complete setup.

Fix issues during setup

Speaker or display doesn't appear in the google home app, restart your speaker or display.

• Unplug your device.
• Wait for 10 seconds, then plug it back in.

Restart the Home app

Setup freezes or can't finish.

• Start the setup process again.

What to do next

• Explore what you can do on your speaker or display : Learn how to play podcasts, make phone calls, control smart devices, and much more.
• Change your device settings : Change language, Personal results, accessibility, and other device settings.
• Set up Voice Match .
• Change your Google Assistant settings : Set up your music, TV, and news services.
• Change your Google Account settings : Set up and customize Google Account information and features.
• Listen to music on your speaker or display .

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As we celebrate our 25th birthday and 25 years of calling the Bay Area home, we’re excited to announce that next month we’re opening the Google Visitor Experience at our headquarters in Mountain View, California. This new destination will give you the chance to experience Google and our hometown community — from a public cafe and a Google Store to an events space and pop-up shop featuring local businesses. Doors open to the public on October 12, 2023.

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We remain focused on being a helpful neighbor and continuing to invest in our long-term presence in Mountain View. That’s why, for the first time, we curated an intentional visitor experience with public amenities for everyone, including neighbors, visitors and Googlers. Attend a local community group or non-profit event at the Huddle, a venue designed for creating connections. Discover and support local businesses at the Pop-Up Shop. Tap into your curiosity in The Plaza, which features outdoor art, events and programming. Connect with friends at the Cafe @ Mountain View, our first-ever public cafe. And explore our hardware products and services in person at the first brick and mortar Google Store on the West Coast.

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1450 Watkins Dr, Moscow, TN 38057

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• Total full bath(s): 2
• Total half bath(s): 1

Lot size and SQFT

• Living Area: 2726

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• Roofing: Prefinished Metal

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• Year Built: 2023

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