Project Starline Immersive Videoconferencing Now Branded Google Beam, Heading to Market with HP

Right this moment at its annual I/O developer convention, Google affirmed plans to deliver its Venture Starline immersive videoconferencing platform to market with HP. Whereas this partnership was confirmed final yr, the product is now formally known as Google Beam, with extra data promised quickly.

Google’s Venture Starline is a platform for immersive videoconferencing which was first launched in 2021. However reasonably than utilizing a headset, the platform is constructed round cameras and a light-field show. The sunshine-field show reveals pure 3D depth with out the necessity for the viewer to put on a headset or glasses. The objective, the corporate says, is to create a system that looks like two persons are speaking to one another face-to-face in the identical room, reasonably than feeling like they’re separated by a display screen and cameras.

Google has been evolving the system through the years to enhance usability and high quality. Right this moment the corporate confirmed a glimpse of the newest model of the system which it says is coming to market underneath the identify Google Beam.

As confirmed final yr, Google is working with HP to deliver Google Beam to market beginning this yr with an preliminary concentrate on enterprise prospects looking for high-quality videoconferencing. Whereas particulars are nonetheless gentle, Google says that “HP may have much more to share just a few weeks from now.”