I don’t have any images from my Project Starline experience. Google had a strict “no photos, no videos” policy in place. No colleagues, either. Just me in a dark meeting room on the Shoreline Amphitheater grounds in Mountain View. You walk in and sit down in front of a table. In front of you is what looks like a big, flat screen TV.
A lip below the screen extends out in an arc, incased in a speaker. There are three camera modules on the screen’s edges — on the top and flanking both sides. They look a bit like Kinects in that way all modern stereoscopic cameras seem to.
The all-too-brief seven-minute session is effectively an interview. A soft, blurry figure walks into frame and sits down, as the image’s focus sharpens. It appears to be both a privacy setting and a chance for the system to calibrate its subject. One of the key differences bet...
