05.19.16

Google I/O 2016, Day 2: Live stream, schedule

It’s the second day of Google’s annual developers conference. Yesterday was full of headline-making announcements, from the Google Home assistant device and Allo messaging app to Android Instant Apps and Android Wear 2.0.

Today, expect plenty of discussion of VR, Google Play improvements and Google Cloud and Android Wear updates. And stay tuned for Co.Design’s Mark Wilson chatting at 2 p.m. (PST) with Brett Lider, head of design for Android Wear, on Facebook Live.

Here is the schedule (all times PST) and here are some interesting sessions:

9 a.m.: VR at Google

10 a.m.: Google Play: We Are Family

11 a.m.: Project Tango Developer Panel

1 p.m.: A new development frontier: Android + Pepper the interactive robot

2 p.m.: Android Wear 2.0: Making Watch apps more standaloneMB

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