 Hey, this is Dan Seifer from The Verge. We're here at Google I.O. and we are checking out Google Wear 2.0. This was just announced on stage. It is the next generation of Google's wearables platform. And the company says it's the biggest update to the platform since it's launched. It has a bunch of new UI features. So you can see there's new controls using physical buttons. This particular watch has a button on the side that launches the new app launcher, which you can see has kind of this new carousel feature, which is very cool, very slick. Push that back and go back to your watch face. But what's really neat here are these complications that let you tap into apps directly from any watch face. So this is a to-do list from Todoist that's been set up on this particular one. You can add tasks. You can add your water intake for other apps as well. And a bunch of different things that developers will be able to plug into and add more complications. It's pretty similar to what Apple is doing in the Apple Watch, but it's cool to see this in both third-party watch faces and with third-party apps. Another thing that is new is the way you can reply to messages. So if we go to Hangouts here, you can reply to messages using a new tracing keyboard, which is a little wild. There's a full keyboard on there, as well as a new handwriting recognition thing. So you can write words on the screen there with your finger and send it away. That's different from the emoji recognition system that's been there before. So those are both new. And you can have a back button to go back as well. Overall, on this particular watch, this is the LG Watcher Bane LTE, which means that it has a bunch of settings that you might not find on a Wi-Fi-only watch. You can use this watch without your phone connected, and there's a bunch of new things for that. But the UI is actually pretty slick and pretty quick. It's much more responsive than I'm used to on the Android Wear watch that I wear every day. The other thing that's new here is there's some new fitness features where it will automatically detect new things like strength training exercise. So if you're doing pull-ups or bicep curls or deadlifts or something like that, the watch can now automatically identify that, in addition to the other activities that it's already there. Google says that Android Wear 2.0 will be available later this year. But if you're a developer, you should be able to start downloading it today and get it running on your watches already. So there you go. That's a quick look at Android Wear 2.0 from Google I.O. I'm Dan Zeefurt. Thanks for watching.
 Hey, this is Dan Seifer from The Verge.
 We're here at Google I.O. and we are checking out
 Google Wear 2.0.
 This was just announced on stage.
 It is the next generation of Google's wearables platform.
 And the company says it's the biggest update to the platform
 since it's launched.
 It has a bunch of new UI features.
 So you can see there's new controls
 using physical buttons.
 This particular watch has a button on the side that
 launches the new app launcher, which you can see has kind of
 this new carousel feature, which is very cool, very slick.
 Push that back and go back to your watch face.
 But what's really neat here are these complications
 that let you tap into apps directly from any watch face.
 So this is a to-do list from Todoist
 that's been set up on this particular one.
 You can add tasks.
 You can add your water intake for other apps as well.
 And a bunch of different things that developers
 will be able to plug into and add more complications.
 It's pretty similar to what Apple is doing in the Apple
 Watch, but it's cool to see this in both third-party watch
 faces and with third-party apps.
 Another thing that is new is the way you can reply to messages.
 So if we go to Hangouts here, you
 can reply to messages using a new tracing keyboard, which
 is a little wild.
 There's a full keyboard on there,
 as well as a new handwriting recognition thing.
 So you can write words on the screen there with your finger
 and send it away.
 That's different from the emoji recognition system
 that's been there before.
 So those are both new.
 And you can have a back button to go back as well.
 Overall, on this particular watch,
 this is the LG Watcher Bane LTE, which
 means that it has a bunch of settings
 that you might not find on a Wi-Fi-only watch.
 You can use this watch without your phone connected,
 and there's a bunch of new things for that.
 But the UI is actually pretty slick and pretty quick.
 It's much more responsive than I'm
 used to on the Android Wear watch that I wear every day.
 The other thing that's new here is there's
 some new fitness features where it will automatically
 detect new things like strength training exercise.
 So if you're doing pull-ups or bicep curls or deadlifts
 or something like that, the watch
 can now automatically identify that,
 in addition to the other activities that it's already
 there.
 Google says that Android Wear 2.0 will
 be available later this year.
 But if you're a developer, you should
 be able to start downloading it today
 and get it running on your watches already.
 So there you go.
 That's a quick look at Android Wear 2.0 from Google I.O.
 I'm Dan Zeefurt.
 Thanks for watching.