When you see movies from decades ago that talk about a future with hologram-based screens, that’s when you smile. Especially when talking about a year in the future that has already happened in real life. Well, this alternate future could have been created thanks to Google and its Starline Project. What is? Is it something for the future or just a project that will end up in the graveyard again?
Ever since our grandparents first saw The Wizard of Oz in theaters, the concept of the hologram has been around in modern science fiction. Understand a hologram as a two-dimensional surface with the ability to display static or moving images in detail in three dimensions. The clearest example in popular culture is Princess Leia’s message in the first Star Wars movie released by R2-D2. Well, Google managed to bring it in the form of real-time video chat technology. Is Project Starline a technology that could change screens on PC or a simple experiment that will end up on deaf ears like many others from Google?
What is Google’s Project Starline?
Project Starling is the name of a experimental google technology who uses light field screens for creating holograms. Its functionality? Allow long distance video chat via holograms instead of using traditional methods. So far, they have been testing this technology within multinational offices and they are already transferring their technology to other companies to test the viability of the technology in environments outside of the development lab.
the technology uses a set of cameras for recording videos then display it at the same time as 3D holograms on large screens. It is therefore a first step towards the standardization of this type of consumer screen. Of course, with the large number of projects that Google starts and cancels after a while, it’s possible that Project Starline will end up on deaf ears like many other projects.
In any case, the fact of using a bright field screen and several cameras implies the use of much more complex and therefore more expensive equipment than that used for corporate videoconferencing. Something that undoubtedly poses problems for its implementation in the vast majority of companies in the world.
What do we think? Well, it is still a technological curiosity that will not go beyond what is shown and all for the fact of using such a unique and exclusive technology to operate. All in all, if it ends up being standardized, it’s clear it could completely change the world of streaming content on the internet and in video games where the closest thing we’ve had so far is the Nintendo 3DS handheld.
