Google’s New Pixel Watch 3 Can Detect a Loss of Pulse
WiredThe clock is ticking for Google. In an interview with WIRED, Sandeep Waraich, product management lead for Google Wearables, says Wear OS saw a 40 percent growth spurt in 2023, and there are now “millions” of Pixel Watch on customers’ wrists two years after the original Pixel Watch debuted. That maturity and growth would be hard to discern if you just looked at the Pixel Watch's sales numbers, which is still a drop in the market share bucket compared to industry veterans like Garmin, Apple, and Samsung. However, with the new Pixel Watch 3, announced today at an event in Mountain View, California, Google’s third-generation smartwatch is pioneering a new health feature for wearables: Loss of Pulse Detection. “We know witnessed arrest has better outcomes, and if we could activate emergency response sooner for the unwitnessed events, this could dramatically change survival,” Sasson says.