Google Launching a New Nest Hub In 2021 That Uses Soli For Sleep Tracking (9to5google.com) 28
Google is planning to release a new Nest Hub in 2021 that will feature sleeping tracking powered by the company's Soli radar technology. 9to5Google reports: 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 a camera, with sleep tracking serving as another incentive to place this device on your nightstand. 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. It's possible that Google will also use Soli on this Nest Hub for gestures to control content. The Nest Hub Max today already uses its camera to play/pause tracks when you hold up a hand.
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 a camera, with sleep tracking serving as another incentive to place this device on your nightstand. 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. It's possible that Google will also use Soli on this Nest Hub for gestures to control content. The Nest Hub Max today already uses its camera to play/pause tracks when you hold up a hand.
Difficult to Do (Score:5, Insightful)
Soli would have a very difficult time tracking my sleep, because there are no electronic devices in the bedroom. And no "smart" Googlag devices, or Alexa devices, or any other "smart" devices in my home.
And there never will be.
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Soli would have a very difficult time tracking my sleep, because there are no electronic devices in the bedroom. And no "smart" Googlag devices, or Alexa devices, or any other "smart" devices in my home.
And there never will be.
Exactly. It is the lack of electronic devices and their disruptive light and sound, that best enables sleep for many.
That whole 6-8 hours of sleep every night? Yeah, that was established back when TV channels went off air for a few hours a day, and a world was seemingly smarter about the rat race. Rather hard to do after the planet got infected with a 24-hour news cycle, and an internet full of addiction to deliver bad news and anything else your distracted mind desires at 4AM.
Using an electronic devic
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I tried sleep tracking years ago. Little device that goes under the pillow, read it back with NFC.
It wasn't that helpful, didn't provide much useful information that I could actually act on.
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Well back then I had a rooted phone so I firewalled off the app that read the data, not that it even tried to send anything out. So the short answer is no, no extra spam.
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Replaces blankets and furnace (Score:2)
You can simply heat the humans with some microwave radar. no need to heat the whole house or even have blankets. you just have to keep it low enough to avoid cooking the proteins in the eyeballs like an egg. But no worries Google has a money back warranty for the first 90 days if it does.
Also detects when you are having sex (Score:2)
and for how long. positions. etc... Warns you if you are in danger of going blind, and chides you if you do less than 40 toothbruch strokes. If it's sensitive enough to measure your sleep then it surely can see everything else.
LOL, no. (Score:2)
Google wants to track me now? (Score:3)
Gee, I'm disappointed.
Breathing patterns? (Score:2)
We know Google loves health data. Will this allow them to track much more detailed bodily functioning, such as breathing patterns? Imagine the things they could infer from that, such as life expectancy or respiratory disease ("Your movement pattern is 76% similar to people who are known to have Lyme disease"). Do you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night a lot? That's a potential indicator of heart problems. Will it be able to track your sex patterns too? Etc.
We really need to start explaining to co
We know what you did last night! (Score:2)
If this device hasn't actually crossed the line, then it is right up to the edge and leaning over.
Set me to "cook" (Score:2)
Google being renamed to "Santa"? (Score:2)
Google knows when you're sleeping ... ....Literally everything fits, so I feel like there's going to be some layoffs at the north pole.
It knows when you're awake
It knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake
It's making a list
It's checking it twice
It's gotta find out who's naughty or nice
You hadda betta sleep right (Score:1)
You hadda betta sleep right or we will tell your employer, who will then fire you.
Google used to disturb my sleep (Score:2)
Until Nest has smart TRV it's useless in the UK (Score:2)
We dont have zonal heating in our old houses much and a retro fit would be too pricey.
Google don't even sell remote sensors in the UK for use with a non smart TRV.
So it's unless you really want a sexy self learning thermostat that just turns the whole house on or off then it's for you.
But if you want smart zonal heating, go Hive for their smart TRVs and lightwave to control the lighting as that suits how UK houses are wired.