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Project Starline expands testing through an early access program

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Re: Project Starline expands testing through an early access program

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I'm struggling to believe Google will see this through beyond a tech demo. And who's the target audience? I mean, what would a unit's cost be? Looks like another cool tech Google won't be able to productize successfully.

Edit: I was super excited for Soli way back when, but so far haven't see any smart clothes they were imagining in the early days.

Re: Project Starline expands testing through an early access program

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This is my favorite Google project. I hope it becomes something that we all can use. To me, at least, this is more useful than meeting in vr with no legs.

Not a very high bar there

The point being competitors are pouring billions into VR meetings, but this project at google is getting little attention.

Re: Project Starline expands testing through an early access program

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I have definitely been wrong about technology before, prime example was camera phones when the first appeared; couldn't for the life of me see the point.

With that caveat, I don't get how this makes employees/customers/clients more engaged/productive or form rapport/have better experiences.

Like the Facebook thing I'm definitely not using anything that has to be this massively invasive (eye tracking, facial recognition, etc) from an advert company.

Re: Project Starline expands testing through an early access program

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I'm struggling to believe Google will see this through beyond a tech demo. And who's the target audience? I mean, what would a unit's cost be? Looks like another cool tech Google won't be able to productize successfully. Edit: I was super excited for Soli way back when, but so far haven't see any smart clothes they were imagining in the early days.

Soli did seem cool. Wasn't Jacquard the smart clothing technology? Surprisingly, I think there are some products: https://atap.google.com/jacquard/products/
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