There's a huge list of "low hanging fruit" that are at the same time niche enough or low-user enough that no one has taken a stab at it so far. Or, if they did, they were expensive / captive / terrible ux solutions. Goog has the money / aura / willingness to actually do something about it, and put things in people's hands. Really cool stuff. We already have "star trek" technology in CotS phones, it's mind blowing.

That is big news if it's actually good enough to use. People have been trying to build sign-to-text and sign-to-speech systems for decades and they've never been usable.

The videos show it translating ASL as it's naturally used; without making the users adapt their signing to English grammar. That's a big leap forward.

This is quite amazing. I wonder: do people actually use the international sign language? Isn't it like Esperanto?