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Google Allo  Google Allo is another keen informing application for Android and iOS that causes you say increasingly and accomplish more. Communicate better with stickers, doodles, and colossal emoticons and content. Allo likewise presents to you the Google Assistant, review release. React rapidly with Smart Reply  Google Allo makes it less demanding for you to react rapidly and keep the discussion going, notwithstanding when you're in a hurry. With Smart Reply, you can react to messages with only a tap, so you can send a speedy "yes" because of a companion asking "Are you on your way?" Smart Reply will likewise recommend reactions for photographs. On the off chance that your companion sends you a photograph of their pet, you may see Smart Reply proposals like "aww adorable!" And whether you're a "haha" or "😂" sort of individual, Smart Reply will enhance after some time and acclimate to your style. Meet your Google A...
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Bringing the NYC Veterans Day Parade to veterans across the country

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I am a veteran and a Googler. I retired in 2012 after a 25-year career in the military, and this week with Google.org, I helped bring veterans with disabilities, and those otherwise unable to travel, their first virtual reality experience. On Thursday morning, we filmed the NYC Veteran�s Day Parade in 360-degree video, and with Google Cardboard, brought together veterans and their families at VA hospitals from Palo Alto, California, to Pryor, Oklahoma to experience the nation's largest Veterans Day parade in virtual reality as if they were there, marching. These #UnitedWeMarch events will continue over the next few days, at VA hospitals around the country.

The virtual parade video is available on YouTube 360 (desktop), the YouTube app (mobile) and via Google Cardboard (also mobile).

It was incredible to reconnect with other veterans and even better to see their reactions to the virtual parade. One Marine who served in Vietnam even remarked, "You just took me away from this hospital room to New York. And you didn't even charge me airfare!"



#UnitedWeMarch is part of the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities, which has given $20M in grants from Google.org toward organizations improving the lives of people with disabilities. In honor of disabled veterans, Google.org also gave a $235,000 grant to America Makes to create a training for military veterans to learn the basics of using new technologies to build personalized assistive devices like 3D-printed prosthetic limbs. This is all in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Innovation.

I�m so grateful to have been there yesterday, seeing the veterans temporarily escape their hospital beds through virtual reality and experience the crowds cheering them along the parade route. We'll continue these virtual marches tomorrow and into next week, so that every veteran has the chance to be celebrated. 

Posted by James Reid, Googler and Google VetNet member

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