The Best Improvements Coming to the Chromecast This Year

Among its many other announcements, Google showed off some upcoming improvements to the Chromecast at Google I/O today.

Here’s what’s coming.

Head toChromecast.com/appsfor more info on that.

The feature will be opt-in, in case you aren’t comfortable opening up your Chromecast to others.

This feature will roll out later this year.

Google is introducing a new feature called Backdrop that lets you customize this idle screen.

you’re able to also add news and weather to your backdrops for a constant feed of information.

you’re able to also ask Google voice search “What’s on my Chromecast?”

Backdrop will roll out later this summer.

It will work with a large variety of devices, but not all (at least at first).

This feature will be rolling out in beta over the next few weeks.