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Endless fun for this holiday season
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Whether you’re cozied up at home or on the road, Chromecast has a bunch of new goodies for you and the family. Just in time for the holidays, we’re adding more Chromecast-enabled games for both Android and iOS to the list.
Now casting is Rovio’s
Angry Birds Friends
, featuring everyone’s favorite red bird, where you can compete in weekly tournaments. Also available is Ubisoft’s
Driver Speedboat Paradise
, where you race your boat through beautiful canals and waterways around the world.
Angry Birds Friends, by Rovio
We’re also introducing several new family-friendly Hasbro games which have been remastered for the big screen experience, including
Monopoly Here & Now, Yahtzee Blitz, The Game of Life,
and
Scrabble Blitz 2.0
. These are perfect companions for the downtime before that ball drops this New Year’s Eve. And lastly, we’re excited to introduce a new way to play
Risk
-- on Chromecast. Now you can compete for world domination with friends and family. (Hasbro games available in the US and CA only)
With Chromecast, you can get a great split-screen experience for your mobile games. For example, if you are playing
Monopoly Here & Now
, only you can see your cards on your phone while the moves you decide to make get displayed on the big screen. It unlocks fun multiplayer experiences, and the ability for you to use your phone or tablet as the controller while gameplay takes place on the TV.
Monopoly Here & Now Big Screen, by Hasbro
Many games now work with Chromecast, and many more will continue to be made available.
So whether you’re playing with friends or by yourself, you can now play mobile games on the biggest screen in the house. Check out these great games and more on
chromecast.com/apps
.
Posted by Wendi Zhang, Chromecast Business Development Games Lead and Ultimate Bird Caster
Wield your lightsaber to escape the First Order
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
You don’t need to be a Jedi to master a lightsaber — just go to
g.co/lightsaber
on your phone or desktop to wield your very own lightsaber in our latest Chrome Experiment, “
Lightsaber Escape
,” built for your phone and computer.
Inspired by
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
, “Lightsaber Escape” immerses you in a galaxy far, far away, bringing the film to life through modern web technologies. Your adventure begins in a Star Destroyer, where you’ll need to use your phone as a lightsaber to escape the First Order.
The experience was developed in collaboration with Disney, Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. The rich 3D graphics were built with
WebGL
, enabling beautiful, high fidelity 3D renders within the browser. We’re also using
WebRTC
and
WebSockets
to enable high accuracy, real-time communication between your mobile and desktop devices, reducing latency and improving interactivity. Plus, building with web standards means the experience works across browsers, and without plug-ins. For a more in-depth tech overview, you can check out our
technical case study
on developers.google.com.
Visit
google.com/starwars
to experience
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
across your favorite Google apps and explore Jakku Spy, a Google Cardboard Experience.
May the Force be with you!
Posted by Paul Irish, Product Manager & T-70 X-Wing Cadet
Even more to love about Chromecast Audio
Thursday, December 10, 2015
A couple of months ago we launched
Chromecast Audio
to provide an easy way to stream your favorite tunes from your phone, tablet, or laptop to your existing speakers. At $35, Chromecast Audio is an affordable way to connect your speakers via WiFi so you can stream tons of popular apps including Spotify, Pandora, and Google Play Music from anywhere in your home. Today we’re starting to add two new features to the latest software update to elevate your listening experience.
Introducing Hi-Res audio support
Close your eyes and imagine the musician is playing in the room. Today we’re rolling out high-resolution audio support, which gives you even higher quality music playback using Chromecast Audio. With support of up to 96KHz/24bit lossless audio playback, you can enjoy higher-than-CD-quality audio on your existing high fidelity audio equipment.
Blast the same song in every room
Now you can easily fill every room in your home—bedroom, kitchen, living room, or wherever you have a Chromecast Audio connected—with synchronous music. Multi-room lets you group Chromecast Audio devices together so you can listen to the same song on multiple speakers.
Setup is simple. Connect and setup a Chromecast Audio device for each of your speakers, then use the latest
Chromecast app
to create a group. You can cast to the group the exact same way you would cast to a single Chromecast device. Since anyone with a phone can easily cast without pairing, you can sync your home speakers together and invite your friends to be the DJ.
So grab your hairbrush microphone, dust off your tennis racket guitar, and jam out to your favorite tunes at amazing quality and in every room of your house.
Posted by Tomer Shekel, Product Manager and Patron of Loud Music
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