Gemini, Gta, And The Search For The Next Big Thing

Google announced a bunch of caller worldly past week, from Gemini 2.0 and Project Mariner to Android XR and Project Moohan. As ever pinch Google, it feels for illustration a batch of worldly without needfully a coherent strategy down it. But if you look intimately enough, and commencement to put immoderate of nan pieces together, nan cognition of those announcements mightiness adhd up to point for illustration Google’s imagination for nan early of everything.

On this conception of The Vergecast (our past Tuesday conception of nan year), The Verge’s Kylie Robison and Victoria Song subordinate nan show to do immoderate Google puzzling. They image their experiences pinch each of Google’s caller projects and experiments, and explicate why Google thinks XR could beryllium nan slayer app for AI — and vice versa.

After that, Chris Grant, group diligent for The Verge and Polygon, joins to talk astir nan 2 biggest 2025 stories successful gaming: nan impending launches of Grand Theft Auto VI and nan Nintendo Switch 2. He explains why GTA is specified an important and enduring gaming franchise, why he’s assured nan Switch 2 won’t beryllium for illustration nan Wii U, and why nan afloat gaming world is waiting for these 2 things truthful intently.

Finally, we reply a mobility from nan Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 aliases email [email protected]!), pinch immoderate thief from The Verge’s patient Helen Havlak. Helen mentioned past week that she uses Figma to negociate her garden, and let’s conscionable opportunity you each had immoderate follow-up questions astir that. So Helen came backmost to explicate her afloat system.

If you want to cognize overmuch astir everything we talk successful this episode, coming are immoderate links to get you started, opening pinch Google:

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Also, coming is immoderate screenshot inspo of Helen’s Figma crippled successful each its to-scale glory.