Google’s ‘Project Starline’ uses AI to make remote meetings 3D

Google is looking to make video calls more realistic with its “Project Starline” telepresence system, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to build a realistic 3D model of the person you’re talking to.

The tech giant has been working on Project Starline since 2021 and revealed its latest prototype this month, which trims down on the size of the system and simplifies the technology needed to make it work. Andrew Nartker, Google’s GM for Project Starline, explained in a blog post that it “works like a magic window where you can talk, gesture and make eye contact with another person, life-size and in three dimensio