Google revealed Project Starline, a booth-sized experimental system for immersive video chatting, purportedly using a bevy of sensors, a light-field display, spatial audio, and novel compression to make the whole experience possible over the web. Functionally, it is a large booth with a big screen which displays another person on the other end of the line at life-sized scale and volumetrically.
The idea is to make the tech seamless enough that it just looks like you’re seeing someone else sitting a few feet away from you. Google also says that novel data compression and streaming algorithms are an essential part of the system. The company claims that the raw data is “gigabits per second,” and that the compression cuts that down by a factor of 100.
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