Gemini, GTA, and the search for the next big thing | The Vergecast

The Verge's Victoria Song and Kylie Robison join the show to talk about all of Google's recent AI and XR announcements, and the company's big and Gemini-powered vision for the future of computing. Then Chris Grant, the group publisher for Polygon and The Verge, explains why GTA VI and the Nintendo Switch 2 are so important to the future of gaming — plus a few predictions about how they'll turn out. Finally, The Verge's Helen Havlak answers a hotline question about how she plans her garden in Figma. Which is a real thing she really does.

00:00 Intro
02:51 Google's Gemini 2
04:06 Google's Vision for the Future
12:45 AI and Smart Glasses
33:21 GTA VI is coming
48:39 Expectations and Challenges
54:32 Anticipation for the Switch 2
01:13:27 Figma Gardening

[secksworker]

46:22 finally, something to keep us video watchers engaged!

[BOBROCKS]

That’s crazy that GTA is winning awards before it even comes out 😮

[gavinathling]

My wife's view is the opposite about candles - way not too intimate enough - get a candle, and you're saying you don't know her at all!

[NotBen]

42:47 not really a gap year they ended up releasing multiple dlc and currently treat the game as a service. Players who wanted a denser story migrated to red dead redemption 2.

[madhavdhilip]

American gifting culture is out of control.

[App-Generator-PRO]

noooo I'm busy actually. multitasking again... 😅

[CraigGjerdingen-fote]

VIDEO GAMES FIRST: Give me real characters in video games, with full backstories and relationships, and daily routines and activities and hobbies and belief systems and neurosis. That I can interact with, and talk to, before all this other stuff.

[o]

This guy knows nothing about GTA and really why it’s #1

[conradseba]

You just measured consoles generations with Xbox instead of PS?? 🤦 Dead God