Google’s Project Starline video conferencing tech is coming to offices

Google is teaming up with HP to carry its Challenge Starline to enterprise customers. The corporate first started demoing this service in 2021 and the primary iteration concerned a 3D video chat sales space with a projection of the particular person you’re speaking to. We got here away , remarking on how real looking the whole lot appeared and that the opposite particular person gave the impression to be within the room with you.

Nonetheless, this expertise isn’t fairly the identical as what we tried a few years again. Since then, Google has streamlined and simplified the system a good quantity. There’s no extra video chat sales space, as the entire thing has been moved to a system that options a big TV and cameras. This scales again , however makes it a lot simpler to implement.

To that finish, Google and HP can be integrating Challenge Starline with frequent video conferencing apps like Google Meet and Zoom. There’s no info as to how a lot it’ll value for firms to signal on to make use of this expertise, or any particulars concerning the preliminary setup. Google says later this 12 months with precise commercialization starting in 2025.

HP calls it an “immersive collaboration expertise” and it actually appears to be a greater telepresence resolution than a tiny smartphone display. On the finish of the day, although, it’s only a massive show. The up to date Challenge Starline tech doesn’t embrace something resembling holographic projection.