"The best way for most TV manufacturers to extract value from consumers is to display ads. So why not take it up a notch with personalized targeting? Or take it a step further by showing your digital clones on-screen to sell suitable products? That's exactly what the US-based streaming hardware and service provider DirecTV aims to do with its latest development."
"The streaming giant says the features are coming to its Gemini (not to be confused with Google's Gemini AI) range of devices in 2026. The so-called "AI-powered content and commerce screensavers" are powered by Glance, the same platform that powers lock screen ads on nearly every major Android phone brand, while labelling them as "wallpaper services." Glance's screensaver ads already exist on other Android-based streaming devices, including ones offered by Airtel in India, where it is already using AI to generate part of those screensaver ads."
DirecTV will integrate Glance-powered AI screensaver ads into Gemini devices in 2026. The system will use users' faces to generate AI avatars that present shoppable product images and short highlight videos. Ads will include QR codes that users can scan to upload images and trigger reverse searches matching real items in Glance's database. Users can insert multiple photos to create a 30-second AI-generated highlight video. Glance supplies lockscreen "wallpaper services" ads for many major Android phone brands and already runs screensaver ads on other Android-based streaming devices, including Airtel offerings in India. Glance generates AI-produced product looks rather than exact virtual replicas of actual products.
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