Totally didn't work for me, tried it with a co-worker, our computers were practically touching one another. :(
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worked for us at maybe 15 feet apart, even with someone in-between us intentionally playing dial-tones from their computer to see if it would interfere (or take us to a random website)
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@chrisgeorgiev It mostly worked between two rMBPs in our office yesterday. Even a few feet apart across the table from each other, we had consistent success with volume around 75%. Below that was pretty mixed for us.
this is basically a tech demo for chromecast right? that way your phone & chromecast don't need to be on the same wifi network.
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Love it!!
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Is it going to have same destiny as QR codes or be actually useful? It feels like it could be the latter, when built-in background mobile support comes as then it wouldn't need any action from the user, ie similar to already always-on Google Now on some Androids (like Moto X).
Could bring lots of uses for sharing materials, wifi passwords, emails, contacts, additional content etc.
Especially for educators, company meetings, conferences, marketing (hopefully not abused), entertainment etc.
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I see some applications in the evil world of advertising... Blippar (https://blippar.com/en/) is a good example of interesting/novelty tech that turned into just an advertising platform (although they're trying to innovate into something else).
Brands could hide speakers that emit instructions to find the next speaker, until eventually the last hidden "google tone emittor" directs you to a chest full of gold (or skittles, or a key to a new toyota, *insertgiveaway*). yuck.
@sandersaar
This is cool and all, but I wish they'd use their engineering talent for more practical things like feature parity between Gmail and Inbox.
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Google's video has been taken down because of a copyright infringment... on YouTube! Get your shit together Google ;)
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Chirp Founder here. Google Tone is a somewhat inferior take on my app Chirp launched a while back, as previous posters have mentioned. Ask me anything!
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