Google Starts Testing Holographic Video Chats at Real Offices (cnet.com) 21
Project Starline, Google's experimental technology using holographic light field displays to video chat with distant co-workers, is moving out of Google's offices and into some real corporate locations for testing starting this year. From a report: Google's Project Starline tech, announced last year at the company's I/O developer conference, uses giant light field displays and an array of cameras to record and display 3D video between two people at two different remote locations. Starline prototypes are being installed at Salesforce, WeWork, T-Mobile and Hackensack Meridian Health offices as part of the early-access program, with each company that's part of the program getting two units to test for start.
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A gift to every chronic public masturbator.
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A gift to every chronic public masturbator.
Jeffrey Toobin, in Glorious 3D!
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It's All Coming True (Score:4, Funny)
CEO: "There is a disturbance in the Force. There is a new threat. Bob from Accounting must not become Department Manager."
CFO: "But if he could he turned?"
CEO: "Yes, he would make a powerful ally. Can it be done?"
CFO: "Bob will turn, or he will be transferred to the Cleveland office."
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"Search your data, you know this to be true."
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Silicon Valley nailed it years ago: https://youtu.be/9YOEEpWAXgU [youtu.be]
I can see you (Score:3)
Them: "Ew, no! Of course not. Why would I want do that?"
One question (Score:5, Insightful)
Holographic Video Chats
Why?
Or, more precisely, what's the benefit over regular video chat -- already of dubious value.
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Because holographic projections are the future. At least in the form of Augmented reality.
They will allow perfectly consistent mix of reality and fantasy.
One example could be to bring back someone who passed away. Create a best friend. etc.
It is more immersive than 2D screen in fixed location.
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Nobody wants to see your dead friends in the office meeting... You did read that this is about virtual office meetings, right?
Re: One question (Score:1)
I imagined holographic displays were to be more feasible than virtual reality right now. Cheaper too. I wonder why it wasn't pushed more.
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Don't care. If the likes of SalesForce want to waste millions on giant light field displays so they can chat with each other, that's great. The rest of us can have $300 ones on our desks and in our VR glasses for playing games.
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Holographic Video Chats
Why?
Or, more precisely, what's the benefit over regular video chat -- already of dubious value.
Regular video chat has a lot of value.
Want to communicate with 4+ people at the same time? Email takes forever, with IM everyone is sitting around waiting for others to read and respond (while worrying that they inadvertently pissed someone off), and a phone call with that many people is a complete gong show.
Video chat is the only way to actually have a discussion between more than three geographically dispersed people.
Now, what's the advantage of holographic over regular video chats? I'm not sure. But Goog
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Ironically, it would provide great benefit for NFSW content.
Or, rather, paradoxically.
I can see it now⦠(Score:2)
Employees holographic images disappearing from around the conference table like the Jedi when Order 66 was implemented.
Why so negative? (Score:3)
It's weird that technical people are the so dismissive of new tech. Especially the young. Apparently they'd rather have 20 reboots of the same old same old then something genuinely new.
Maybe three dimensional video is cool, maybe it's a dud. Why not let it play out and see?
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Ill let it play out, but I am having a hard time thinking of a killer application off the top of my head. One of the worst things about meetings in real spaces is its in 3d space
hey Bill want to pass me that prototype model I want to look at one thing, and pay attention Jim thanks for banging into my chair to get your damn cup of coffee, hey where's that model? Susan wanna pass me that model, I think the screw boss is ... hey another group of people barging in cause you ran 30 seconds late, and where did th
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Only narcissist bosses would want this (Score:2)
After most people shifted to remote working, I have noticed that it is mainly the narcissist managers who loved to turn on their camera in every zoom meeting, most other people would often turn their camera off (because their didn't bother to wear presentable attire, or to preserve bandwidth for better audio quality), but a few obviously narcissist would *always* turn on their camera, even in case of poor connection when their voices were breaking up.
It must be news to them that absolutely *nobody* liked to