A first-look at the most underreported thing to come out of Google I/O 2026

I was watching the Google I/O 2026 Developer Keynote on my laptop at 11:30 PM with a cup of cold chai. Gemini 3.5 Flash landed. Antigravity 2.0 got a standing ovation. The smart glasses got the screenshots. Everyone was talking about Gemini Omni.

And then, buried between slide 40 and a code snippet, a presenter said the words "WebMCP."

I sat up straight. I replayed that section three times.

Here is why.