How To Use Filters On Hangout

Google Hangouts For Android Gets Smarter, Adds Video Filters And More than

Google'due south Hangouts app for Android is getting a major update today, as the company's VP of Production for Google+ Bradley Horowitz announced at the LeWeb conference in Paris this morning. Some of these new features are mostly simply fun, just a couple of others actually brand the service easier to utilize and bear witness a start glimpse at Google's future plans for this service.

Among the fun new features are 16 new sticker pages and a couple of Easter eggs (simply blazon "woot" or "happy altogether" into a chat to run across what those look like after you've installed the update).

Screenshot_2014-12-03-11-27-20~2 On the visual side, you tin can too now employ filters to your video chats (recollect sepia, vignette, black and white, etc.).

Those are fun little features, but what'southward more important in this update is that Hangouts is besides getting smarter. When somebody now asks yous where you are, Hangouts will automatically prompt you to share your location. All you take to exercise is driblet a pin on the map (so you can fudge your location a little chip in example you don't want to give away where exactly you are). Information technology's worth noting that Hangouts already features location sharing today, just what's new here is that Google is trying to parse your conversation to look for clues when it can automatically provide you with a quick respond pick.

Your contacts volition besides at present show a "concluding seen" timestamp then it'south clear when somebody is online. And in order to consolidate all your contacts, this new version also allows you to import all your telephone's contacts, too.

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Given that Google has now integrated text messages and the Hangouts conversation tools into a single application, it's nice to see that it is also trying to make the conversation feel a bit smarter. Location sharing isn't new, of course, but Google's natural linguistic communication processing algorithms probably have the smarts to enable a big number of similar experiences, too.

Chances are then that understanding questions like "where are y'all?" is just the beginning of what Google tin can do hither. You could easily imagine a similar response to questions like "are you lot gratuitous?" That 1 could pull up data from your Google Calendar, for example.

All of these new features are currently

And because you know yous honey stickers (STICKERS!!!), hither is a petty slideshow that shows you what the new ones look like:

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