The Pixel phone's Motion Sense mystery
This time nearly a year ago, I was genuinely excited.
The month was June of 2019. Rumors were flying fast about Google's then-still-under-wraps Pixel 4 phone, and an especially juicy one had just made its way to the surface.
The Pixel 4 would feature a wild new kind of radar system, the grapeline informed us — a system we'd been hearing about from Google for years but that had remained a lab-based experiment up until that point. It was called Project Soli, and Goog almighty, did it sound promising.