This is real innovation
Project Starline is Google’s new concept that was announced in its I/O 2021 Keynote event which will make human interaction over the internet feel more realistic and natural.
This is Google’s technology for two-way communication from a distance, but made to feel as though the other person is sitting right across from you.
Imagine looking through a sort of magic window, and through that window, you see another person, life-size and in three dimensions. You can talk naturally, gesture and make eye contact.
Wow ! That’s cool.
To make this experience possible, Google is applying research in computer vision, machine learning, spatial audio and real-time compression. They have also developed a breakthrough light field display system that creates a sense of volume and depth that can be experienced without the need for additional glasses or headsets.
Google VP Clay Bavor explains that one of the things Google is most proud of is that one can sit down and forget about the technology and instead focus on the person sitting in front of you.
The company is currently testing Project Starline in a few of its offices by using custom-built hardware and highly specialized equipment. Google believes this is the future of person-to-person communication and its goal is to make the technology more accessible and affordable.
Currently, with the technology, Google has connected its workers between its offices in Bay Area, New York, and Seattle.
It’s also demoing the technology with select enterprise partners in areas like healthcare and media to get early feedback on the technology and its applications. The company also hopes to deploy trial hardware to enterprise partners sometime later this year.
Here is a video that shows Project Starline in action.
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