HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam

HP has go the archetypal institution to preview hardware built with Google Beam, the 3D video connection exertion formerly known arsenic Project Starline. It’s launching the HP Dimension, a instrumentality that features a 65-inch airy tract show with six high-speed cameras wrong the bezel to make “a true-to-life” 3D video of your caller.

Google first announced Project Starline’s rebrand past month. At the time, Google said that it would fto third-party manufacturers, starting with HP, usage its plan model to physique devices with Beam. The HP Dimension is meant for endeavor use. It costs $24,999, and that doesn’t adjacent see the bundle needed to clasp video calls, arsenic users volition request to acquisition a Google Beam licence separately to summation entree to Zoom oregon Google Meet. (HP and Google haven’t said however overmuch a licence volition outgo yet.) 

As my workfellow Alex Heath pointed retired successful a demo of Google Beam, you don’t request a headset, glasses, oregon immoderate benignant of peculiar instrumentality to spot a workfellow arsenic if they’re successful the aforesaid room. Beau Wilder, HP’s caput of aboriginal lawsuit experiences, said you don’t request a peculiar country either, but having a achromatic inheritance is champion for an “optimal” experience.

“We’re not trying to enactment a caricature successful a tiny container crossed the array from you,” Wilder said. “We privation you to locomotion into the country and instantly marque oculus interaction without adjacent reasoning astir it.”

HP Dimension users volition inactive beryllium capable to clasp calls with radical from different video conferencing platforms and devices, but their colleagues won’t beryllium capable to spot their images projected successful 3D — and vice versa. Along with a bid of built-in cameras, the HP Dimension features adaptive lighting that “adjusts to the environment,” allowing users to spot realistic shadows connected facial features and earthy tegument tones.

The HP Dimension pairs its airy tract show with spatial audio that Wilder said “never separates the dependable from the body.” It comes with HP’s caller Poly Studio A2 array mics, arsenic good arsenic 4 speakers located down its curved, “acoustically transparent” mid-wall for “a nonstop way to the ears.”

“The eventual extremity of Google Beam — and it’s manifested connected HP Dimension — is to consciousness similar you’re there,” Andrew Nartker, wide manager of Google Beam, said during the briefing. “You consciousness conscionable similar you’re determination astatine the array moving unneurotic … It’s each meant to bring america unneurotic and yet consciousness similar we’re wholly physically present.”

The HP Dimension volition motorboat successful the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan aboriginal this year. Companies similar Salesforce, Deloitte, and NEC Corporation person already committed to bringing Google Beam into their offices.