Google’s Project Starline Video Conferencing Technology wants to turn you into a Hologram

Bavor’s last observation is subjective and is a sample of one. The first is a phenomenon that is actually being studied, now that office staff have spent the last 14 months taking meetings through screens. Guk are more attention in video encounters According to research by Microsoft, and is partly a mechanism for coping to protect video meetings from excessive mental stress. In this context, Google’s Project Starline seems to be particularly over-engineered, combining accessible technology (Google Meet), nerd technology (computer vision! Compression algorithms!), And an unbuilt, unbuilt mini-studio, everything … for the benefit. video meetings.

But of course, that’s it realism of the photorealism that technologists strive for, and sometimes think that connecting through screens is really the only option. But maybe try VR headphones?

Google has You tried to make VR headphones. People didn’t really use them. He has also made AR glasses; who can forget Google Glass? And if you write an article that suggests that Google Glass is no longer there, the company’s public relations team will quickly remind you that it still sells a product called. Glass Enterprise Edition 2. One has to wonder if Bavor (who doesn’t use ordinary, smart glasses) is now almost uninterested in head-to-ear screens, apparently at a time when all other consumer tech companies are making face computers.

Bavor says he still believes VR is “very strong in its ability to take it elsewhere,” and that there is a line from AR and VR to Project Starline. But he also admits, “It’s one of the other studies I’ve done with AR and VR. I think it’s nice to sit like you and put nothing on. I think it speaks to the importance of comfort, agility, and ease. So I’m thinking about it somehow.”

For now, the Google Project Starline will try to shrink as technology continues to improve. The booths will be sold to businesses when and when they go on sale. Bavor says Google will conduct technology testing this year at the beginning of the year with a number of customers: cloud business, telemedicine applications, or media companies, though it declined to name those early testers.

And some of the optics developed for Starline could be expanded earlier in everyday technology. Exciting parts — lighting and shadow or spatial audio — could be applied to the video conferencing applications we already use. Until then, Project Starline booths will be used primarily by Googlers, those who go to the offices, impressed with the realism, picking up the apples and ignoring the difference between realism and reality.

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