Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Disney is Taking Over Your Home Assistant (‘Hey Disney’ Hands-On)”.
I’M here getting a first look at what it’s like to have Disney, be in your home as a voice assistant. This is the first look at hey Disney, a custom voice assistant that is coming to Amazon devices this year. This is the Echo Show 5 and coexisting with Alexa is Disney disclaimer. If you have a smart assistance, I’m going to be saying the a word in this article. Alexa. Sorry, I’m waking her up deal with it. I’M really excited because this is the first time I get to see this and put it to the test in person. Hey Disney, tell me about yourself, I’m the Disney Magical companion. I can answer your questions about Disney parks. I can tell you the weather set, alarms, introduce you to Mickey Minnie and my other Disney friends plus guide you to plenty of exciting surprises. All right.
Let’S make some magic. I know what you’re thinking is Disney. Now my house assistant, not exactly at all. It’S really coexisting with Alexa. At the same time, Alexa is still handling the basics in the house, whether you want to control the lights or your music and hey Disney is there to have a little fun with, at the same time, without having to start a whole new skill up so anytime. You could say: hey, Alexa or hey Disney and then follow up with what you want it to do.
Maybe with Disney you want to have fun play games, get entertainment, and if it can’t do a skill, it may pass it off. Hey Disney play Disney music I’ll. Ask Alexa for that that song, sorry, I can’t help it I’m a little bit of a fan, so there’s not really anything special on your main home screen when you have this inactive, but some of the cards that will kind of scroll by may start to include Hey Disney suggestions, because you’re going to be asking: what can it do and you’re going to be learning as you go? What kind of skills you could put into the test on when you ask hey Disney questions at any point in time you get their helpful magical assistant. That’S that main voice, but characters sometimes chime in on their opinion on things and there’s over 25 to start, and these characters are from all the properties. Pixar Star Wars Marvel they’re all weaving in, and you don’t know which one you’re gon na get hey Disney. What’S the weather in Las Vegas, it’s 50 degrees, Fahrenheit with clear skies and sun looks like us: okay, it was a beautiful day, but you might get Olaf if it’s really sunny or I’ve also heard one word Dory, chimes in from Finding Nemo yeah.
She has something to say about the weather too. You never know what you’re going to get hey Disney talk like a whale [ Applause ], we’re looking at a very Mickey fied uh show 5 here, but this is an OtterBox stand. You could buy separately on Amazon, of course, but you don’t have to have it that way. It could just be the regular Echo you have in your house and it’s not only for show five devices it’ll be on other supported Alexa devices as well. I think over time as folks have this in their home they’re, going to start seeing what it can do and what happens. Hey Disney, let’s play with Mickey.
I hope, Nick and Pluto have a magical time, I’m so glad you’re. Here I have a feeling. Folks are going to be trying to hunt for Easter eggs in this as they develop it as it comes out, they can keep programming more and more characters, there’s about 25 or so to start, but I wonder if they have any Star Wars ready for this test. Hey Disney, can I play with C-3PO now I don’t need you to close your eyes and imagine a galaxy far far away. If I might introduce myself, my name is c-3pio Human cyborg relations. I’M loving this music. This is uh soundscape from uh the movie with Tiana. The Princess and the Frog, this is like a swamp in in New Orleans and now it’s raining and we heard frogs and Jazz, and this is not the music That’s from the movie.
This is something that is just like invoking the time and the feel of it. All okay, that’s my jam. I’M gon na be playing around with soundscapes. I think a lot if you’re wondering why did Disney do all this you’re, seeing this in their hotel rooms they’re going to be putting Echo Show fives in their hotel rooms this year they already started in Florida at the Walt Disney World Resort and we’re talking a Lot of hotel rooms, there are 30 000 over 30 000 rooms just in Florida alone, but it’s also coming to Disneyland in California and they made this very nice experience.
If you go in the room, you can use Hades to get advice on your trip or or details about the resort you’re in or the theme park, and all this trivia to have fun with too you could take that at home. So it leaves all that Resort stuff at home, that’s where it still uses the same trivia games, the fun about the weather. All of this stuff is kind of baked in that you can play with Anytime by just having to be a constant wake. Word it’s coming! This year and it’s going to be included as part of the Amazon, kids Plus subscription service, that’s something that gets kids access to a lot of content books games.
But if you don’t subscribe to that, you’ll also be able to purchase it through the skill store. We don’t have a price yet so it’s definitely going to be for Disney. Fans want to have a little extra fun in their day or just you know, take a Memento home from their vacation, but it will be coming sometime this year. There’S another little nugget of news for those of you planning a Disney vacation.
They have these things called Magic Band plus these are interactive: smart bands that hold your ticket and other information on them and they glow. Well, if you happen to buy one of those at the theme park, it’s gon na interact with this. It’S going to have different features like being able to light up when you set alarms and play trivia games in your hotel room and when you take it home.
If you get paid Disney at home, could light up at home too thanks for coming along with me and geeking out a bit on this Hands-On of the first time that we are seeing hey Disney in a consumer way, hey Disney good night good night pal, say Pluto we should oh just calling to say good night we’re just gon na call you to wish you good night sweet .