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hey guys I'm here in the scene that smart Oh with the trio of Alexa echo devices here from Amazon to test out the new echo spatial perception feature it's a new feature that's rolling out to every echo device that's already out in the market via a software update that includes the original Amazon echo the first generation Amazon echo dot mini speaker and the new $50 second gen echo dot mini speaker now all echo spatial perception or ESP as it's called really is is the ability for different echo devices to distinguish which one is closest to you when you say the wakeboard usually Alexa so if I say Alexa all threes will wake up but only the closest one should respond to me so let's turn the mute off on all of these and test it out now if I had to guess I would say that the original Amazon echo here is the one that's gonna respond to me because it's got the microphones up at the top of the device a little closer to my voice than the to echo dots down here but let's give it a shot Alexa tell me a joke what did the shot have a wish just that she'd be a little bolder it's really bad joke as you can see the echo dot in the middle is one a pipe that to me is the one right in front of me so I guess that makes sense let's try it again spread the devices out through the room here in see how it does Alexa what's the capital of Sweden Sweden's capital city is stock boat now ESP is a pretty important role out for Amazon because it envisions us having Alexa not just in every home but in every room of every home and that won't work so well if all the devices in your home are all piping up to once every time you try to use one of the devices the echo spatial perception update is live now so if you've got an echo device in your home already or a couple of devices you'll start to notice that they only pipe up one at a time you'll also find it already installed with the new echo dot the second gen $50.00 unit here that's shipping out to people that pre-ordered it starting on October 20th