The second generation Nest Hub costs $99, and its Sleep Sensing feature will be free until 2022. TYLER HAYES. It can be a little confusing identifying this new Nest Hub because it looks just like ...

Google’s latest $99.99 Nest Hub looks familiar, but comes with a better speaker and new sleep tracking capabilities, which work very well. But it’s starting to feel like Google is demanding ...

It’s easy to tell when you’ve have a bad night’s sleep, but the new Nest Hub’s Sleep Sensing feature will help users determine why you slept so poorly. Image: Google.

At $99, the second-generation Google Nest Hub is an excellent smart speaker and display. But its optional sleep-tracking feature isn't for everyone.

Google is going to make Sleep Sensing free to everyone who purchases the new Nest Hub until 2022. At that time they may roll Sleep Sensing into a premium subscription like with Fitbit.

Nest Sleep Sensing tracks snoozing without a wearable. Google's Soli radar tech allowed you to control the Pixel 4 with waves and gestures, but it turned out nobody really wanted to do that.

The new Nest Hub has been improved in a number of ways, but the big selling point here is that it can track your sleep using Motion Sense, the same radar technology we first saw in the Pixel 4.

How does the new Nest Hub track your sleep activity? In a word: radar. The Soli chip is basically just a very small radar that detects the room's electromagnetic field.

When the 2nd-gen Nest Hub was announced in March of 2021, Google said Sleep Sensing would eventually become a paid feature. After previously targeting 2023, sleep tracking will now be free for ...