Goodbye Project Starline, hello Google Beam 3D video conferencing

Google first teased Project Starline in 2021, billing it at the time as a "magic window" that uses special hardware, computer vision and machine learning to create an almost holographic video call experience. Since then, we've checked out an early version of the experiment for ourselves and learned last year that the company is teaming up with HP to bring a scaled-down version of the product to enterprise clients. At I/O 2025 today, Google announced that Project Starline "is evolving into an AI-first 3D video communication platform" called Beam. CEO Sundar Pichai said onstage that the first devices will be available later this year to "select customers," though there's no word on pricing just yet. Adding to the computer vision and machine learning that already go into Project Starline (now Beam), Google says the platform will "use AI to enable a new generation of devices that help people make meaningful connections, no matter where they are." Part of this is a "state-of-the-art AI vo ... Read full article.