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I would be interested in playing around with this tech, but I wouldn't integrate it into my business or any other part of my life.
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 recogniti…
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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/
Edit: I can imagine more interesting use cases where you can't use precise input, for example when wearing gloves (construction, space suite, etc.).
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.
1. Does it only support 1-on-1 meetings (the demos only show 1-1)? I think that's still useful, but note probably 90%+ of my online meetings have at least 3 people.
2. Sounds like the expense means it will only be installed in offices, not people's homes. Which, again, is still useful as long as it hits the 3rd bullet point.
3. Does everyone need to be on a Starline device to participate? I'd expect/hope to get "graceful degredation" in functionality for folks who were just joining from, say, their laptop at home.
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.
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