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hey it's Joshua regard what's going on everybody and reporting to you live from Google i/o 2017 you can see a lot of the stuff happening in the background really I just got out of the Google Play Awards now this is actually one of my favorite events at this show the main reason why is because it gives us a glimpse into what Google views as the best applications games VR experiences social impact I'm going to get into all the categories and talk a little bit about each one a little bit later now this is just the second annual Google Play Awards and I really they really tightened up the show a lot actually they used to allow the app developers who came up to to accept the award to do speeches that wasn't the case this time around so the show is actually pretty concise pretty quick but we got a glimpse into a number of really good apps the first category was best indie now a lot of people out there might recognize one of the apps that was in the running for this and it was called rains however rains was not the app that won here the game that one was actually mushroom 11 so doesn't going to be trying that out the best startup award went to an app called hooked which kind of changes the paradigm of texting and virtualizes it a little bit definitely enough to check out though I was a little bit disappointed because discord which is the app that we use for the Android or a podcast was in the running but of course did not win the thing that I noticed in the Android wear app experience was that well in this category there were a lot of fitness apps which probably is apropos because Android wear is supposed to have a health initiative that said however the winner of this one was runtastic I really loved the best TV experience one Android TV is of course going to be a really big thing going forward especially since Google assistant is coming to Android TV and also to chromecast ostensibly but Android TV obviously is about a viewership experience and what I noticed in this was that there were a lot of different Asian programming applications I don't remember the names of them offhand but you can see them in this clip right here and yet there was also Netflix which was interesting because while it's a huge company and that became a trend later on in different categories but the winner of this of this award was Red Bull TV the best VR experience went to a game that I actually was able to try at the unity summit 2017 you could check out the coverage from that at VR source calm and it's YouTube channel but virtual virtual reality which is a hilarious game because it puts you in so many different scenarios that these robots or these AI are trying to understand the human condition so they put you in virtual reality which is weird because it's virtual virtual reality and for the best AR experience one of the runners-up was a Wayfarer application that's the application that you would expect in an AR experience where you can put a couch in the middle of your living room virtually so you can actually tell if it will fit inside of your room but instead an app called world was the winner in this category the best app for kids went to animaljam play wild even though there was a Teen Titans game in there which I've actually played and I'm definitely not a kid does multiplayer was an interesting one because if you haven't noticed in these clips there are a lot of applications that were given awards or were given nominations for awards that have been around for a little while now so it's not necessarily the 2017 Awards with that said best multiplayer went to hearthstone which I know a lot of you out there play a lot and have been for quite a while and then kind of a weird order in the Google Play Wars was the fact that best app came next which is weird because you would think best app or even best game which came after best app would be the last applications or rewards that happen at the end of the show but indeed this app went to memorize which is an app I definitely want to try out even though inside of best app there was an app by GoPro called quick which is interesting because you have another big name in the running for best app and even though I'm sure there are a lot of you out there who really wanted Pokemon go to win and it got a bunch of cheers at the Google Play Awards it did not win the best game instead the best game went to transformers forge to fight I played this game myself and it is really good the main reason why I won was because they said it brought console level gaming and graphics to Android and kind of sets the bar for what future graphics on Android could look like for any of you tinker's out there if this then that or if as they called it was the winner of the best accessibility experience granted it is an app that has been run for a long time but its ability to give you a lot of options if you're a little bit creative was the reason why they gave it this award and finally for Best social impact an application that we were all very much encouraged to check out is share the meal share the meal is an app that was made by the United Nations and tries to have everybody who downloads the app helped to provide meal for those in developing countries so much like the show itself I just kind of wanted to give you a quick snapshot of all of the different awards that were given out and the nominees that we're the runners-up to these awards the Google Play Awards is a wonderful place to kind of see where Google thinks the best applications are and if you want to check out some of the applications and then let us know what you think should have won in the comments below remember this is all a discussion in Google i/o 2017 has been incredibly fun but we want to hear from you about how you thought Google i/o 2017 went so make sure you go into the comments below tell us what you thought about this and anything else even the keynote which we did a reactions video on and then you can keep it tuned 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