Google TV has prepared to make the Olympic Games a central part of the televisions of users around the world. Google knows that sports fans will be focused on this event and, therefore, has updated the platform’s interface to celebrate it. Just in time for the start of the competition!
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games begin in a few hours with their official opening ceremony and Google has already launched the Google TV update with which the service is brought up to date. This way, you will be sure to have the best information about the event immediately every time you turn on your television or Google TV device. This way, you won’t miss any results!
A new hub at your disposal
What Google has prepared is a dedicated Olympics hub that is prominently displayed in the Google TV navigation interface and guarantees quick access to the best content. This hub concentrates the broadcasts that are retransmitted from the services that you have available among your applications and other content that is available to you.
This includes live broadcasts, archives of completed events, and highlights of the best sporting events. The content that appears on your hub will depend on this availability and will also vary depending on the country in which the user is located. The aim is to give you access to a wide range of content, including interviews, reports, and other elements related to the events.
Google specifies that this hub for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will only be available between today, July 26, and August 11. If you can’t find the featured content, just go to the For You section.
Other Google apps are also updated
The company is fully committed to the celebration of the Olympic Games and, due to this, has started a round of updates in several of its services. In each one it makes a different contribution related to the sporting event, so we are going to tell you about some of the most interesting ones that you can take advantage of.
Google’s Gemini AI has been updated with all the knowledge you could ever need to know about the Olympics. The range of questions you can ask the artificial intelligence is huge, from topics directly related to sports to more generic things like asking it for advice on what snacks you should have on hand for watching the opening ceremony.
Google Wallet has a fun Olympic mascot collection system, so every time you make a payment using a Visa card, you’ll get a pet that will join your collection until you complete it. YouTube has added some new features aimed at content creators related to the Olympic Games, while Google Maps and Waze have prepared to make things very easy for visitors to Paris.
Finally, Google Search offers the possibility of obtaining real-time information about all the athletes and the role they are playing in their respective disciplines. Google wants to simplify searches and allow users to access information immediately. Therefore, if you like sports and want to keep up to date with the Paris event, the Google search engine will possibly become one of your best allies. As you can see, there are great new features on Google for the Olympic Games, although in general, we cannot deny that what has caused us the most interest has been the new section dedicated to the event that Google TV receives.