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TECHx
a day ago
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- TECHx
HP Reveals HP Dimension With Google Beam at InfoComm
Home » Emerging technologies » Artificial Intelligence » HP Reveals HP Dimension With Google Beam at InfoComm At InfoComm 2025, HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) announced HP Dimension with Google Beam, previously known as Project Starline. The new product is an AI-powered 3D video communication solution designed to enhance virtual collaboration. HP Dimension delivers a realistic, in-person meeting experience. It requires no headsets, glasses, or wearables. Developed in partnership with Google, the solution is built for small meeting spaces. HP Dimension with Google Beam combines: A 3D light field display Adaptive lighting and spatial audio Six-camera capture and AI technology The company reported that the system enables natural eye contact, lifelike visuals, and true depth perception. This creates a deeply immersive meeting experience that feels like being physically present. HP stated that 73% of knowledge workers seek stronger connections with coworkers. To address this, HP Dimension uses AI and six cameras to generate real-time 3D video. The display shows participants with realistic size, depth, and color. Testing revealed several benefits: 28% improvement in memory recall Up to 39% more non-verbal behaviors 14% increase in focus on the meeting partner According to HP, these improvements help teams align faster and communicate more meaningfully. The result is better outcomes through authentic interaction. The device supports Zoom Rooms, Google Meet, and cloud-based video services like Teams and Webex. It offers 3D immersive one-on-one communication, 2D group meetings, and meeting interoperability. HP described the system as a step toward the future of work. The goal is to create more immersive and authentic collaboration experiences. Helen Sheirbon, SVP and President of Hybrid Systems at HP, said the solution bridges the gap between virtual and physical communication. She emphasized the importance of authentic human connections. Andrew Nartker, General Manager of Google Beam, said the experience makes users feel as if they are in the same room, despite physical distance. Additionally, HP introduced the HP Poly Studio A2 Audio Solutions. These are designed for professional-grade audio in meeting spaces. The system enables plug-and-play setup and seamless scalability. The HP Poly Studio A2 includes: Table microphones with daisy-chain scalability Clean cable management and magnetic mounts A central Audio Bridge with up to 32 input channels The microphones use NoiseBlockAI for enhanced clarity. HP confirmed the system works with the latest Poly Studio video solutions via a single Ethernet cable. HP Poly will showcase these solutions at booth #3742 during InfoComm 2025.
Channel Post MEA
2 days ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
HP And Google Introduce 3D AI Video Communications Solution For Virtual Collaboration
HP has unveiled HP Dimension with Google Beam (formerly Project Starline) at InfoComm 2025 in the US. The AI-powered, true-to-life 3D video communications solution is designed to take virtual collaboration to the next level. HP Dimension with Google Beam delivers a deeply immersive experience that replicates the feeling of being in-person, with no headsets, glasses, or wearables required. Developed in partnership with Google, HP Dimension with Google Beam is designed to transform the future of workplace communications by combining breakthrough 3D imaging, natural eye contact, spatial audio, and adaptive lighting into an elegant solution for small meeting spaces. HP Dimension with Google Beam is designed to establish deeper, more meaningful connections. It uses six cameras and state of the art AI to create a true-to-life 3D video of each participant, displayed on a special light field display with realistic size, depth, color, and eye contact. Testing, has shown a measurable impact compared to traditional video calls, with participants who used the solution for meetings reporting: A 28% increase in memory recall Up to 39% more non-verbal behaviors displayed At least 14% increase in focus on the meeting partner These findings translate to faster alignment, more meaningful exchanges, and better business outcomes based on the authenticity of each interaction. HP Dimension with Google Beam brings depth, clarity, empathy, and subtlety to virtual meetings to help redefine collaboration and bring people together, no matter how far apart they are. HP Dimension with Google Beam will provide a native Zoom Rooms or Google Meet experience and support three functions: 3D immersive one-on-one communications, 2D traditional group meetings, and meeting interoperability with cloud-based video services such as Teams and Webex. HP Dimension with Google Beam is Designed for the Future of Work HP Dimension with Google Beam represents the culmination of HP's ongoing investment in innovation to create a culture with more immersive and authentic collaboration experiences designed for the Future of Work. HP and Google are taking this technology into the enterprise, to deliver deeper, more authentic human connection and communication. 'We believe that meaningful collaboration thrives on authentic human connections, which is why we partnered with Google to bring HP Dimension with Google Beam out of the lab and into the enterprise,' said Helen Sheirbon, SVP and President of Hybrid Systems, HP Inc. 'HP Dimension with Google Beam bridges the gap between the virtual and physical worlds to create lifelike virtual communication experiences that brings us closer together.' 'HP Dimension with Google Beam needs to be seen to be believed – making it feel as though you are in the same room, even when you are miles apart,' said Andrew Nartker, General Manager of Google Beam, Google. 'We are excited to bring distributed teams together in a way that feels just like meeting in person, and HP is a perfect partner for this.' HP Poly Studio A2 Audio Solutions: Precision Audio for Modern Collaboration HP Poly Studio A2 Audio Solutions are purpose-built to deliver next-generation audio and more immersive meeting experiences with simplified deployment. Designed for seamless integration with the latest generation Poly Studio video solutions, the HP Poly Studio A2 system enables plug-and-play scalability in rooms of all sizes, and delivers clear, rich audio pickup so even participants that are farthest away in large meeting spaces are always heard clearly.
The Verge
20-05-2025
- Business
- The Verge
Google found a way to make virtual meetings suck less
Since it was first demoed in 2021, Project Starline has felt like the kind of thing only a company like Google would bother trying to build: a fancy 3D video booth with no near-term commercial prospects that promises to make remote meetings feel like real life. Now, Starline is nearly ready for primetime. It's being rebranded to Google Beam and coming to a handful of offices later this year. Google has managed to shrink the technology into something it says will be priced comparably to existing videoconference systems. The real bet is that other companies will want to make their own hardware for Beam calls. 'The devices aren't really the point,' says Andrew Nartker, the project's general manager. 'The point is that we can beam things anywhere we need to with the infrastructure that we built.' Beam uses a light field display and six cameras to render a volumetric, real-time 3D version of the person on the other end of a videocall. There's no headset, no weird glasses. Just a chunky display, a Chrome OS-powered compute puck the size of a DVD player, and a bespoke AI model working with Google Cloud in the background to stitch it all together. Google has created a reference design for manufacturers, starting with HP, to make into their own hardware. I used Beam during a demo at Google's campus the day before its annual I/O conference, where AI is once again taking center stage. Beam wasn't something originally designed for the modern AI boom, but its trajectory has been impacted by it. I was shown the earliest prototype that filled a small room and relied fully on local computing. Over the last couple of years, Google moved the vast majority of that horsepower to the cloud via a custom AI video model, which paved the way for the simpler, cheaper hardware design that HP is now using. The pricing and availability details for HP's Google Beam device are coming next month. Google says that Salesforce, Deloitte, Duolingo, and a handful of other companies have committed to installing units in their offices. Its video model takes a couple of milliseconds to process all the data — one stereo video stream for each eye, captured by six standard-color cameras — over typical office internet. T-Mobile even tested it over LTE once. (I noticed some lag a couple of times during my demo at Google's headquarters.) While developing Beam, Google observed that people feel a real 'fatigue' from regular, 2D virtual meetings. 'We've done rigorous studies that show people feel a stronger sense of attentiveness' after using Beam, says Jason Lawrence, its head of engineering and research. 'They remember more of their conversations. They tend to be more animated. We see more nonverbal behaviors.' Those subtle cues may feel insignificant, but they add up when you experience Beam for more than a couple of minutes. I found myself wanting to physically lean into conversations. Being able to make eye contact with the other person gave a feeling of presence that you can't get through a traditional webcam. Calls on the latest AI model paired with the commercial, HP-made hardware for Beam are noticeably richer. Colors pop more, and the spatial audio sounds dramatically better than Google's in-house prototypes. With the hardware in a better place, Google is now focused on making Beam a real alternative to Zoom or Meet. I was shown a new screen-mirroring feature that placed a browser window to the side of whoever I was looking at, and another call demonstrated live translation from Spanish to English. Beam is limited to one-on-one calls for now, though group calling is coming, along with the ability to display regular, 2D video calls. Nartker says the long-term vision is to bring Beam into homes and not just offices. 'We're going to build a bunch of devices,' he says. For now, though, Beam is another Google moonshot taking its first step into reality — one that might make remote meetings marginally less painful.
