<div dir="ltr"><div>"Surprisingly, Starline wasn’t conceived of during the pandemic as a
frenzied attempt to keep socially-distanced and locked-down humans
connected; as reported by <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/google-project-starline/"><i>Wired</i></a>, Google’s head of augmented and virtual reality, Clay Bavor, said the project has been in motion for over five years.
<p>Bavor sees Starline as being in a different league than tools like
Zoom. “I know that the person I’m sitting across from is not checking
his phone during the meeting, and that’s nice,” he told <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/google-project-starline/"><i>Wired</i></a>.
“But the crazy thing is, I would wake up the next morning and have the
memory of, ‘Oh, I saw Steve yesterday.’ Not like, ‘I had a video call
with Steve yesterday.’ And there’s just something different about how
our memories are laid down.”</p>
<p>The imagery in Project Starline’s sample video does look impressively
realistic. However, the technology isn’t close to being ready for
widespread use; there are still glitches to be ironed out and
improvements to be made, not to mention a cost that’s undoubtedly
prohibitively high (details of cost haven’t been released)."</p>
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