Google seems to be testing or developing a content hub under the name Kaleidoscope, per a dormant landing page displayed in Google’s developers’ browser.
Spotted by Chrome Story at chrome: // kaleidoscope / with Chrome canary, kaleidoscope – as it seems to be called – greets visitors with the tagline: “All your shows in one place.” Kaleidoscope, it seems, would allow users to “see all your favorite shows in one place, no matter where they host.” When Gizmodo visited the landing page on Thursday afternoon, nothing appeared under a prompt to select “the providers you use.” However, in screenshots shared by Chrome Story, icons for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney + appeared below.
Clicking the “Yes, I’m In” button from the landing page to the right took us to a second page titled “Continue Viewing All Your Devices.” Clicking “Yes, I’m in” again dropped us to a dead end. This page reads: “Chrome Kaleidoscope is currently unavailable for your account. If you are a Googler, please check / kaleidoscope not available for more information. “Womp. Womp.
Google did not immediately return a request for comment on the product.
What it looks like is either something Plex wants – it’s just everything host and aggregator for content – if anything more than Apple TV or Prime Video, which allows you to stream third-party services. With not much to really see, it’s hard to say how it would actually work – although it would be extremely tight for Chrome users to pick up a window that would essentially take the goods out of content juggling across multiple services .
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