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Project Starline is now Google Beam, but what's new? I tried it to find out


Not much seems to have changed — and it's still really good.

I wasn't allowed to take photos inside the Google Beam demo booth, but that's okay because the equipment looks identical to the setup Android Central captured at the 2024 event. There's an AI volumetric video model that helps Beam combine multiple views coming in from the cameras in real time, creating a 3D representation of the person viewable on the other end of a call at 60 frames per second. (Image credit: Android Central)You feel innately comfortable chatting with a person using Google Beam, because there isn't the need to wear earbuds, look perfectly at a webcam, or deal with technical issues.

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