Google's Fast Pair headphones to get auto-switching just like AirPods

Google is expanding the capabilities of its Fast Pair audio functionality to aid them carry more than like Apple'south AirPods.

The company is working on a new Bluetooth-based tech that will enable auto switching betwixt Android phones and tablets, Google Chromebook laptops and even some Windows PCs.

In a weblog post Google says: "your devices should instinctively know which of them you want to utilize and when," so future Bluetooth headphones will automatically switch the sound to the device you lot're listening on.

"So if you lot're wearing headphones to watch a movie on your Android tablet and you lot receive a phone call, the movie will pause and the headphone audio will automatically switch to your Android phone so switch dorsum to the picture when you're done," Google says. You can come across how it'll piece of work below.

As still no headphones back up the proprietary automobile switching tech Google is working on, but you take to presume the side by side-generation Google Pixel Buds volition be get-go in line.

Elsewhere, full back up for Spatial Audio support is coming to supported headphones in the next few months, Google says, thanks to the addition of caput tracking capabilities.

"Spatial sound on your headsets volition make yous feel like yous're really there by adapting the sound based on your head movements," Google says in a new blog, "positioning the audio in the space all around y'all."

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In a few weeks, electric current Fast Pair-enabled headphones will automatically exist detected and paired with a Chromebook in a single click. Support for headphones is also coming to Google TV and Android Telly OS. The company is too leveraging the new Thing universal smart home protocol will enable Fast Pair to chop-chop set up new devices on a smart home network, while Fast Pair will also help yous ready a new Chromebook with all of your accounts and Wi-Fi passwords, etc..

Google was supposed to be at CES 2022 in person, but was one of the many loftier-profile withdrawals in the weeks leading up to the effect.