Google TV plans interactive workouts to your living room

San Francisco, Aug 10 : With the aim to encourage physical health and fitness in the comfort of your home Tech giant Google plans to closely incorporate its Android TV platform with fitness trackers and third-party audio.

The fitness tracker will enable developers to create interactive workout programs that can be used in the living room.The companys representatives presented these plans at an exclusive event for partners last month, at which they described the plans as part of the companys "Better Together" efforts to create an ecosystem of closely-integrated Android devices.

But Google will also be looking to enhance the method by which Android TV and Google TV devices are integrated with other audio devices from third parties.To make this happen the companys demands, it requires device makers to be able to support Bluetooth 5.0 for Android TV or Google TV devices running Android 13.In addition, Google is also encouraging its hardware partners to launch smart TVs as well as streaming devices running Android 13 with 16 GB of memory to give users more storage for system updates and apps according to the report.Googles own Chromecast with Google TV streaming adapter is currently only available with 8GB of memory.

Google has launched Android TV as an Android-based smart TV platform in 2014 and in 2020, it unveiled Google TV as an enhanced smart TV experience that is based on Android TV.-IANS vu/n.