Android co-founder Andy Rubin talks with The Verge's Walt Mossberg about Playground Ventures, the investment firm he founded after leaving Google, which aims to anticipate how machine learning and artificial intelligence would shape a post-mobile world. Rubin discusses his new mobile company, Essential Products, which was developed in Playground's internal design studio and is developing a mobile phone, a home device and a new operating system called Ambient OS. The Essential Phone is designed to talk wirelessly to accessories that will work with other hardware down the line, including a miniature 360-degree camera for capturing VR-ready videos.

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