Google will test Starline, its 3D communication system based on telepresence

Google has announced that it will soon begin to install the prototypes of its Starline project in different organizations, an implementation with which it hopes to carry out periodic tests to determine the effectiveness of this three-dimensional communication system (3D).

The company announced the Starline project at the Google I/O 2021 developer conference, a communication system that works like a window in which you can make eye contact with another person, life-size and in 3D.

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This means that Starline bets on telepresence and that allows two participants in a conversation to feel that they are next to each otherdespite the distance between them.

This solution incorporates two structures: a screen with cameras, loudspeakers, illuminating microphones and the computer on one side (where the other person is represented) and, on the other, a rear unit with infrared feedback, where the user sits.

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Currently, the prototypes of this project, which was still under development at the end of last year according to reports published by Google Research, are distributed throughout the company’s different offices in the United States and have been tested by professionals from different areas, such as the media. or the health sector.

Nevertheless, Google seeks to expand these tests to other companies and has announced that it has opened an early access program with brand partners. Among them, WeWork, T-Mobile, Salesforce or Hackensack Meridian Health, which will be able to sign up for these tests “starting this year”, according to a statement published on the technology firm’s blog.

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For the senior vice president of Commercial Technology at Salesforce, Andy White, the Starline project “has the potential to promote deeper connections between people by uniting face-to-face and virtual experiences,” as stated in the letter.

From Google they have recognized that with these tests they hope to “see how it can help employees establish strong links with each other” such as, for example, connecting doctors with patients or vendors with customers.

Likewise, they have said that they seek “that the Project Starline experience feels natural, as if the person were sitting in the same room” as the users who try this 3D communication system.

Source: Elcomercio

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