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all right hey it's Josh regard from Andhra Authority I'm here with David and we're going to be taking a look at a demo of the chromecast screen mirroring that is a feature that's going to be coming in the coming months for the chromecast it's a feature a lot of people have been wanting and we're gonna take a look at just how well it works on this huge Sony TV right in front of us so David going to take it away cool great so what we're gonna be doing is we're gonna be showing the cast screen functionality so I'm gonna open up my quick settings pane here I'll hit the cast Screen button and I see the name of the chromecast that also appears in the television behind us living room and I'm gonna tap that and immediately my screen is actually mirrored to the TV so this is really valuable for a variety of reasons one is you can use really cool apps like Google Earth and they mirror really really fluidly really well so if we load up Maui we can see a really really smooth transition here and so we can share the content that's appearing on the really really small screen that we all use to huddle around with everyone in the room and if I rotate the phone we can see that it looks even better when it's in landscape than portrayed I can show you another couple things too so one case that I can't show you because this is just a demo phone is apps that don't already natively support the chromecast they work great with Android mirroring and another case that I'd like to show you is simply displaying a tab from the Chrome browser so let's say we wanted to look up Android authority and load it here and immediately we can see it on this enormous screen in front of us appreciate that by the way absolutely so as you can see the new mirroring functionality works really really well with the chromecast it just extends the different use cases that people have for it makes it even more valuable and it's coming to all chromecast users soon all right great well that was just a quick look at the screen mirroring as you could see in the background there on the sony tv it worked really well and if you could sort of sync up where you see the phone kind of doing it's doing its thing you'll be able to see it's actually really responsive the latency is actually very low and Google Earth looked wonderful on there so that was just a quick look at the chromecast screen marrying everyone can look forward to that feature coming in the coming months I know I am for sure so keep it tuned to Android authority for all the great coverage especially when that feature comes out and make sure you stay tuned here for the rest of our coverage here at Google i/o 2014