News on Google’s Project Ara Modular Smartphone has recently been scarce, but hopefully that will all change on day 2 of Google’s I/O 2015.

“Google I/O is an annual software developer-focused conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. Google I/O features highly technical, in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open web technologies such as Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Google APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more.”

At 11am on May 29 (day 2 of Google I/O) there will be a session titled “A little badass. Beautiful. Tech and human. Work and love. ATAP.” Speaking at this session is Regina Dugan, Vice President of Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP).



A little badass. Beautiful. Tech and human. Work and love. ATAP.

Optimized for speed. Because we are, well, impatient. And someone should be. The engines on Project Ara are revved. We’re on the road to Puerto Rico. Creating the hardware equivalent of the software app ecosystem sometimes feels a little Dakar Rally, sometimes a little Le Mans. Fast. Difficult. Worth it. Speaking of fast… We’ll debut our newest Spotlight Story ‘Fast-and-Furious’ style. Justin Lin’s live action short goes live at I/O. In full 360 with 3D soundsphere. Whaaaat? Exactly. And wearables that we hope will blow your socks off. (We mean this more literally than you might think…) Our goal: break the tension between the ever-shrinking screen sizes necessary to make electronics wearable and our ability to have rich interactions with them. Why can’t you have both? We like to build new things. Sometimes seemingly impossible things. We can build them faster together.

We hope to hear an update on the Pilot Project set for Puerto Rico later this year, and news on the current state of Ara. For those who cannot attend Google I/O 2015, this session can be live streamed on the event’s official website.