{"id":834733,"date":"2025-03-17T12:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/gemini-live-astra-video-and-screen-sharing-rolling-out-in-march\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:12:34","slug":"gemini-live-astra-video-and-screen-sharing-rolling-out-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/gemini-live-astra-video-and-screen-sharing-rolling-out-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemini Live \u2018Astra\u2019 video and screen sharing rolling out in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure>\n\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Gemini-Live-video-screen-sharing-cover.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1600\" alt=\"Gemini Live video screen\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"><\/figure>\n<p>At MWC 2025, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/feed\/android-gemini-mobile-world-congress-2025\/\">announced<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/11\/project-astra-gemini-2-0\/\">Project Astra<\/a>-powered live video and screen share capabilities in Gemini Live are rolling out \u201clater this month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon launching the Gemini overlay on Android, you\u2019ll see a new \u201cShare screen with Live\u201d button above the Ask Gemini text field. Tapping will share your screen to Gemini Live, with the new <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/04\/gemini-live-call-notification\/\">phone call-style notification<\/a> in use. (Compared to the existing approach, you get a persistent pill with a live count next to the time that lets you immediately jump into the full UI.) <\/p>\n<p>You can then ask questions about what\u2019s on your screen and have a full back-and-forth conversation.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe id=\"post-youtube-video-1\" title=\"Gemini Live with Screenshare\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCMuL7vE9ao?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, launching the fullscreen Gemini Live will show a new video shortcut (next to screen share) that launches a live feed that takes up most of your display.<\/p>\n<p>In a slight visual tweak, Google has shrunk the existing circular buttons for Hold and End into pill-shaped containers.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe id=\"post-youtube-video-2\" title=\"Gemini Live with Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLHY4Op9Y0U?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Google has been teasing these capabilities since last May at I\/O 2024, and detailed new features powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/12\/11\/project-astra-gemini-2-0\/\">Gemini 2.0 in December<\/a>. The last preview <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/01\/22\/gemini-samsung-galaxy-s25-launch\/\">came in January<\/a> with Samsung\u2019s Galaxy S25 launch.<\/p>\n<p>Google will be rolling out these new Gemini Live capabilities to \u201cGemini Advanced subscribers as part of the Google One AI Premium plan on Android devices later this month.\u201d Those at MWC in Barcelona can demo these experiences today.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{\"imageId\":\"67d8581875f80\"}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on-async--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-async-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\"  alt data-height=\"1127\" data-id=\"663714\" data-link=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/03\/03\/gemini-live-video-screen-sharing\/google-mwc-2025\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Google-MWC-2025.webp?w=1024\" data-width=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/03\/Google-MWC-2025.webp?ssl=1\" data-amp-layout=\"responsive\" aria-label=\"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Android Avenue between Halls 2 and 3<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-more-on-gemini\">More on Gemini:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/25\/new-gemini-live-update\/\">New Gemini Live starts rolling out: How to check if you have it<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/03\/01\/gemini-live-podcast-ads\/\">Google advertising Gemini Live with podcast ads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/28\/gemini-saved-info-free\/\">Gemini \u2018Saved info\u2019 is the latest Advanced feature to go free, rolling out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/02\/25\/free-gemini-document-upload\/\">Free Gemini users can now upload, analyze documents [U: Context window, limits]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMMqA-Qow-c_gAg?hl=en-US&#038;gl=US&#038;ceid=US:en\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<em>Add 9to5Google to your Google News feed.<\/em>\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4aSyWvz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/02\/Roborock-Feb-2025.jpg?quality=82&#038;strip=all\" alt width=\"750\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p> Abner Li<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/03\/03\/gemini-live-video-screen-sharing\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At MWC 2025, Google announced that Project Astra-powered live video and screen share capabilities in Gemini Live are rolling out \u201clater this month.\u201d Upon launching the Gemini overlay on Android, you\u2019ll see a new \u201cShare screen with Live\u201d button above the Ask Gemini text field. Tapping will share your screen to Gemini Live, with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689,1957],"tags":[10192,19332],"class_list":{"0":"post-834733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-astra","8":"category-gemini","9":"tag-astra","10":"tag-gemini"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}