THE VIDEO SHELF · telepresence video calls
Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
Google's short promo for Project Starline, a booth that shows a life-size, three-dimensional view of the person you are talking to. It presents the technology as a magic window for friends, families and co-workers who are far apart.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN mostly uses it as a reference point for how much better video calls could get, with some skepticism about what the demo leaves out.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Topic
- telepresence video calls
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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We might just not know what we are missing. I used to think that video calls is a solved problem until I saw Google's Project Starline [0]. Video calls in AR could be vastly better, not just a little bit, but basically a completely different …
mindover on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Apple headset leak reveals new details and confirms earlier rumorsI think the most promising Metaverse technology might be something like Starline [1]. No headset to wear. No disorientation. You just sit down and you're there with somebody else. [1] [VIDEO]
jonas21 on Hacker News · 2023-03
In Who is still inside the metaverse?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.