Today at I/O, Google announced the latest prototype of Project Starline, its 3D teleconferencing video booth. On the face of it, the biggest difference a dramatic reduction in hardware. The earlier model, which it showed off late last year, relied on several cameras to capture speakers from all angles. This time out, however, the system only has a “few” of them, leaning on AI and ML to generate a convincing three-dimensional image of its subject.
According to Google, the system has gone “from the size of a restaurant booth to a flat-screen TV,” courtesy of these hardware updates. It notes in a blog post,
Our earlier Project Starline prototypes took up an entire room, requiring complex hardware such as infrared light emitters and special cameras to create a live 3D model of the person you were talking to. While the results were impres...
