The stage is set, the Moscone Center is tricked out with leopard print Androids, and Google I/O is just about to start. You know the drill here: The first order of business is an hours-long keynote address that’ll show us exactly what Google’s been working on behind closed doors these past few months and what we can expect to play with in the future. Android M? More insight into Android Pay? VR announcements? It seems like this year’s show is really going to have it all. We’ve got a little more time before the keynote kicks off, so hang tight, thumb through our I/O preview for as a quick refresher, and stay tuned for more shortly.
May 28, 2015 12:30:00 PM EDT
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Hey y’all, we’re here inside the Moscone Center waiting with intensity for Google’s 2015 I/O keynote to start.
By “we,” I mean myself (Chris Velazco), fellow word-slinger Nicole Lee and photo guru Roberto Baldwin.
Since we scrambled to our seats close to an hour ago, we’ve seen people duke it out in a Pong game that stretched across an entire room, and a whale lazily float around on the walls.
So yeah, it’s one of those days.
Just a quick reminder: the show will start in earnest in about ten minutes, so you’d best run to the bathroom/make some popcorn/get the mail NOW.
There were people taking selfies and posing for photos earlier at the keynote. Who knew this was such a party?
I spy with my little eye Matias Duarte and a very festive shirt right up front. If you’re reading this, Matias, where can I get one?
The music… the music is slowly fading out. Psych! There’s more of it now.
Just had to shut my phone off. Nothing will get in the way of our delivering you sweet, sweet Google liveblog action. Speaking of action… there isn’t any right now.
Anyway, what are y’all hoping to see today? Android M is a given; Android Pay is a given, but I’m hoping against hope for some new hardware to play with. Google’s ATAP division is going to show off some new wearables at a workshop tomorrow, but *maybe* we’ll get a glimpse today.
Pong finals are over, lights are going dark, here we go!
We’re drifting through outer space, or at least a facsimile of outer space with labeled galaxies and star clusters.
The screen, I should re-mention, wraps around 60 percent of the whole room. If this isn’t some sort of nod to VR plans, I don’t know what is.
Getting closer to Earth, it seems — we just passed Uranus. (No jokes please)
By the way, all this flying through the galaxy stuff? Major hints as to a potential VR push, I’m sure of it.
OH MAN THERE’S EARTH. In the words of Carl Sagan: That’s home; that’s here; that’s us.
One minute until go-time. All of you: get hyped.
COUNTDOWN ON THE SCREEN. Get ready to rumble.
We’ve got a cavalcade of app icons personified in some weird animated world. Twitter birds flying around, Uber cars tooting down the street.
OK, this countdown has been almost over for about 3 minutes now.
THERE WE GO. “Here’s to what you build next.”
And who else joins us onstage than Google SVP of Product, Sundar Pichai
Quick shout-out to the 2 million people watching I/O via livestream.
There are folks watching the I/O keynote from Mexico, Germany and Kenya. Cool.
“This is, of course, the moment of mobile and the smartphone.”
Google’s about building products for everyone in the world. Google Search, for instance, works the same for everyone in the world.
(Tell that to China, Sundar.)
“Why does email have to be slow? That’s why we made Gmail.”
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