Google’s Project Starline is an experimental 3D telepresence booth that aims to replace traditional video conferencing with a more immersive experience. Here’s a detailed look at the capabilities, technical specs, and vision for the future of Project Starline.
Capabilities
- Project Starline creates a 3D video chat experience that feels like you’re actually sitting across from the other person.
- It creates a feeling of presence, personal connection, and helps with attentiveness and reaction-gauging.
- It beats traditional video conferencing when it comes to creating a feeling of presence and personal connection.
- The new design is made to sit next to a desk, making it seem like the 3D person sitting across from you is at the other side with you having a chat.
Technical Specs
- Project Starline uses an 8K screen, four high-end Nvidia graphics cards (two Quadro RTX 6000 cards and two Titan RTX’s) to encode and decode all the data, and microphones and camera capture pods.
- End-to-end latency reportedly averages 105.8 milliseconds.
- The new design looks more like a real product than the experimental array of cameras in the previous version.
Vision for the Future
- Google envisions Project Starline being used in corporate offices as test programs to see if the idea could expand to other businesses.
- Google plans to install Project Starline in more locations in the future.
- Google’s idea for the future of video conferencing is a giddy vision that only a small group of Googlers have had access to, and one that has apparently gotten a thumbs-up from chief executive Sundar Pichai.
- Project Starline enables friends, families, and colleagues to communicate in a more realistic way than ever before.
Google’s Project Starline is an experimental technology that aims to revolutionize video conferencing by creating an immersive 3D video chat experience. In all honesty I think this can revolutionize immersive online gaming and adult entertainment (e.g. OnlyFans, lol) as early adopter use cases. With its high-end technical specs and vision for the future, it has the potential to change the way we communicate with each other.
