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gooble is taking on five tech giants with the new products that launched at i/o 2016 home versus echo the first product caught in the crossfire will be the echo google even referenced it during the keynote giving Amazon due credit for making home hubs popular air freshener jokes aside Google's home is shaping up to be a worthy rival of the echo there's deeper search integration and the ability to communicate with dumb devices like an old TV or stereo via chromecast a low vs. messenger next up messaging Google wants you to ditch Facebook's messenger in whatsapp in favor of a low like whatsapp a low is tied to your phone number and not your Google account with some of the same advanced features of messenger stickers photo doodles app integration and a digital assistant what's cool or creepy about a low is its built-in assistant will offer up canned responses based on your conversation history or contextual information right in your chat box duo versus FaceTime duo is a video chat app completely independent of a low for Android and iOS like FaceTime it has a clean interface showing you a full screen video of the caller on the other end but it's reportedly faster and will cut out even on a spotty connection oh yeah and it has knock-knock which may be more of a drawback than a plus it lets you see live video of the caller before you even answer Google assistant versus Siri Cortana and Alexa and then there's the brains behind all these devices Google's own gender-neutral assistant will provide a more personalized experience across all your devices the more you use it the smarter it gets starting right on your search bar while other virtual assistants may only display search results google's assistant will be able to give you a contextual response to a query and engage in a full conversation daydream vs oculus both our VR platforms that can be integrated into third-party hardware everything from Google daydreams home interface to the headset and controller is reminiscent of what we've already seen from oculus like oculus on the gear VR daydream is mobile based meaning you'll need a VR ready phone to run the platform the experience on a phone may not live up to the full inversion of a pc-based rift but we won't really know until we strap the headset his fall