While most people have chosen to avoid wearing VR and AR headsets for one-on-one group chats, Google Starline project He envisions a kind of happy medium between the company’s Zooms and the future of floating holograms. glasses-free 3D technology I have to do the show Last year, it was originally designed to be room-sized. The latest prototype shown in Google I/O conference The developer conference is now showing that it has shrunk to the size of a large TV.
according to Google blog postThe new prototypes are already being tested in demo groups at Salesforce, T-Mobile and WeWork. The goal is to pare down the experience into something more akin to “a more traditional video conferencing system”.
Starline, created by some of the Google team that helped build the company Daydream VR platform Years ago, the full-size video chat experience was surprisingly convincing and sometimes piercing. Chatting with someone via Starline last fall felt like I was talking to someone who was sitting directly across from me: people appear life-sized, and the array of cameras and depth-sensing equipment creates realistic eye contact in a way that normal home video chats over tablets, phones and laptops in some cases make. Sometimes you don’t.
Designed to sit next to a desk, the new design makes it appear as if the 3D person sitting across from you is having a conversation. The somewhat intimate feel of my first Starline demo was part of what made me feel like I was having a conversation with someone in a coffee shop or office, rather than a distant web chat.
Google had plans to install Project Starline in the company’s offices as test programs to see if the idea, which was developed as Project Labs, could expand to other companies. The new design, which looks more like a real product than the batch of demo cameras I tried on, certainly feels more office-friendly.
Google isn’t the only company working on the best video chatting solution: Logitech’s project ghostwhich is planned for launch later this year, has a similar telepresence solution that doesn’t use 3D glasses and can use more off-the-shelf webcam hardware.
As more next wave AR manufacturers love appleAnd Google and Samsung Start testing other ideas, maybe your holographic collaboration idea will grow in different directions. In the meantime, it looks like Google’s Project Starline could be an intermediate step to discovering something that works without wearing anything at all.
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