{"id":25478,"date":"2016-05-07T19:01:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/google-is-quietly-making-progress-on-one-of-its-most-jaw-dropping-tech-projects"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:00:40","slug":"google-is-quietly-making-progress-on-one-of-its-most-jaw-dropping-tech-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/google-is-quietly-making-progress-on-one-of-its-most-jaw-dropping-tech-projects","title":{"rendered":"Google is quietly making progress on one of its most jaw-dropping tech projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-is-quietly-making-progress-on-one-of-its-most-jaw-dropping-tech-projects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s Project Soli was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/google-soli-finger-control-technology-2015-5\">one of the highlights<\/a> of the company\u2019s developer conference last year, but there\u2019s been little news about it since then.<\/p>\n<p>The technology uses special radar-sensors packed in a tiny chip to detect a person\u2019s physical movements (such as rubbing two fingers together), letting a person do things like turn the volume up on a radio without actual touching anything.<\/p>\n<p>The recent news that Regina Dugan, the head of the Advanced Technology and Projects lab at Google that oversaw Soli, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/regina-dugan-moves-from-google-to-facebook-2016-4\">jumped ship to go work at rival Facebook<\/a>, did not seem like a good sign for the future of Soli. And with Microsoft\u2019s recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/microsoft-research-pre-touch-smartphone-gestures-2016-5\">unveiling of similar technology<\/a>, Google\u2019s impressive product demo last year seemed like it might not make it out of the lab.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/google-quietly-making-progress-one-205400586.html\">http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/google-quietly-making-progress-one-205400586.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Project Soli was one of the highlights of the company\u2019s developer conference last year, but there\u2019s been little news about it since then. The technology uses special radar-sensors packed in a tiny chip to detect a person\u2019s physical movements (such as rubbing two fingers together), letting a person do things like turn the volume [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56276,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25478\/revisions\/56276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}