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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/9\/23298103\/google-tv-fitness-tracker-wear-os-smart-home<\/a>
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Google has yet to launch its first smartwatch, but the company may already be working on the next steps for its wearable plans. According to a Protocol<\/em> report<\/a>, Google is planning to integrate fitness trackers into Google TV<\/a> and Android TV as part of a broader push to strengthen its product ecosystem. The question is whether the historically fragmented Wear OS platform is up for the challenge.<\/p>\n

The company purportedly laid out the plans at a closed-door event with its TV partners, Protocol <\/em>reports. The idea is to let Wear OS and Fitbit users broadcast real-time metrics like heart rate and calories burned on the screen. Better smart home controls are also part of the plan. That said, these efforts may take a while. Google\u2019s fitness plans supposedly won\u2019t show up until 2023 at the earliest, with smart home efforts coming the following year. This is partly because Google\u2019s partners have to create more powerful smart TVs and streaming gadgets to enable all of this.<\/p>\n

In the short term, the company is also reportedly working on beefing up its wireless audio offers on the platform. That includes enabling Nest speakers to work wirelessly with TVs as well as bringing Fast Pair to its Pixel Buds<\/a> so that users can more easily use them with Google TV devices. <\/p>\n

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