{"id":14836,"date":"2021-05-18T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=14836"},"modified":"2021-05-18T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:29:45","slug":"google-reveals-project-starline-a-next-gen-3d-video-chat-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/18\/google-reveals-project-starline-a-next-gen-3d-video-chat-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"Google reveals Project Starline, a next-gen 3D video chat booth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled that a bunch of Google friends (including Dan Goldman, who was instrumental in bringing Content-Aware Fill to Photoshop) have gotten to reveal <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/technology\/research\/project-starline\">Project Starline<\/a>, their effort to deliver breakthrough 3D perception &amp; display to bring people closer together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Imagine looking through a sort of magic window, and through that window, you see another person, life-size and in three dimensions. You can talk naturally, gesture and make eye contact.<\/p><p>To make this experience possible, we are applying research in computer vision, machine learning, spatial audio and real-time compression. We&#8217;ve also developed a breakthrough light field display system that creates a sense of volume and depth that can be experienced without the need for additional glasses or headsets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod\/original_images\/howitworks_v8_480p.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out this quick tour, even if it&#8217;s hard to use regular video to convey the experience of using the tech:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Starline: Feel like you&#039;re there, together\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q13CishCKXY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that Dan &amp; co. will be able to provide some peeks behind the scenes, including at how they captured video for testing and demos. (Trust me, it&#8217;s all way weirder &amp; more fascinating than you&#8217;d think!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thrilled that a bunch of Google friends (including Dan Goldman, who was instrumental in bringing Content-Aware Fill to Photoshop) have gotten to reveal Project Starline, their effort to deliver breakthrough 3D perception &amp; display to bring people closer together: Imagine looking through a sort of magic window, and through that window, you see another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14839,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14836\/revisions\/14839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}