{"id":96105,"date":"2022-10-13T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/googles-3d-video-calling-booths-project-starline-will-now-be-tested-in-the-real-world-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T18:18:04","slug":"googles-3d-video-calling-booths-project-starline-will-now-be-tested-in-the-real-world-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/googles-3d-video-calling-booths-project-starline-will-now-be-tested-in-the-real-world-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s 3D video calling booths, Project Starline, will now be tested in the real world \u2022 TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While Meta is trying to convince consumers to strap on its VR headsets to enter the metaverse, Google continues to experiment with a different sort of false reality: its holographic video chat project known as Project Starline. Announced last year, Project Starline is a video-calling booth that uses 3D imagery, high-resolution cameras, custom depth sensor sensors and a breakthrough light field display to create a lifelike experience for callers on both sides of the screen \u2014 and all without a required headset. Now, Google says it’s expanding its real-world tests with an early access program that will see Starline used in the offices of various enterprise partners, including Salesforce, WeWork, T-Mobile and Hackensack Meridian Health. <\/p>\n

Google will begin installing Project Starline prototypes in select partner offices for regular testing starting later this year, it noted.<\/p>\n

Until now, the 3D calling booths were found in Google’s offices in the US where employees were able to test them for things like meetings, employee onboarding sessions, and more. The company had also invited more than 100 enterprise partners in areas like media, healthcare and retail to demo the technology in its offices and offer their feedback about the experience.<\/p>\n

With the launch of the new early access program, those partners will be able to test the calling booths in their own offices, providing Google with valuable feedback and insights about how such a technology would be used in the real world and what sort of challenges it may face.<\/p>\n

Those who have been able to test Project Starline have described the experience as being incredibly realistic and an impressive technology, even in its early phases.<\/p>\n

But there have been questions about to what extent Starline would ever exist beyond being a very cool tech demo, versus a technology that would eventually become a part of office workers’ \u2014 much less consumers’ \u2014 everyday lives. It’s unclear if Google has a plan to actually commercialize the tech, what these calling booths would cost businesses to either purchase and maintain, and whether or not there’s enough demand for the technology in a world where Zoom and Google Meet are considered \u201cgood enough\u201d solutions for virtual meetings. (Plus, they can support more than the one-on-one conversations Starline offers.)<\/p>\n