Will they let people wfh after this? My guess is yes and with every bit of information tracked - what apparel people like to what kind people you like for match making. May be even what people are afraid of.
Project Starline expands testing through an early access program
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
The experience is as if you're looking directly at a person sitting across from you. There is no camera offset.
The Q is "done how"
IIRC depth sensors, you're not actually looking at the original image from a camera, they recreate the person as a 3D model.
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#123This is amazing and would do wonders for adult entertainment as well.
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#12520 bucks this will end up in google graveyard cemetery
good tech though this is way more impressive, now all we need is some other company who will commit to it unlike google
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does. And so does a hologram. But it remains to be seen if Google can see a tech demo through, make a profitable product, and support it past the initial hype. I hope this time it does, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Who cares? Why is every comment in this thread about how they hate google ventures? Can’t we discuss the idea itself?
> Why is every comment in this thread about how they hate google ventures?
Because every products they make that isn't collecting data to build their advertising profiles or display ads ends up in the graveyard after a few months/years
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#127If they've managed to embed the video collector at eye height or close, so the effect of looking at the screen is to be seen as looking at the other person, this is in itself useful. If it's still a non-eyeline camera and they do some adaptive smarts to make it "look" like eyeline I'd be interested how good that is. If they have leveraged peppers ghost and like techniques to make a volume appear to be "occupied" then…
they likely never reached the precision and leverage needed for this position, I'd not be surprised if everything that is left is just digging through snow and figuring out how many a particular java class takes in terms of bytes.
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#128Most of the comments here are just complaining Google is going to cancel this, but I think Google should cancel this because it doesn't seem like a good product.
They're not a hardware company and no matter how many people want a cool telepresence box, how many of those people want to pay Google employee prices for its maintenance?
It seems like they came up with it for fun, but maybe they should just sell it to Cisco.
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#129Most of the comments here are just complaining Google is going to cancel this, but I think Google should cancel this because it doesn't seem like a good product. They're not a hardware company and no matter how many people want a cool telepresence box, how many of those people want to pay Google employee prices for its maintenance? It seems like they came up with it for fun, but maybe they should just sell it to Cisc…
Based on the comments here, the heavy lifting is done in software. If it takes off, I fully expect Google to start licensing it out the way they do much of their hardware (Chromebooks, Android, etc).
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#130Looks cool, but sad to see this is US only. I wonder if this is because regulations, latency requirements, or both?