Google Is Bringing Beam, Its 3d Video Conferencing Tech, To Deployed Service Members

Google has teamed up pinch nan United Service Organizations (USO) to thief deployed work members enactment successful touch pinch their families successful a different way. As portion of a aviator program, nan institution is bringing Google Beam, its 3D video connection tech, to USO work centers successful nan US and different countries starting successful 2026.

Google suggests that Beam tin thief subject families who are separated by galore miles consciousness for illustration they are successful nan aforesaid room. While family members tin support successful touch pinch deployed loved ones done group chats and video calls, chatting via Beam could thief them consciousness person together, if nan tech useful arsenic good arsenic promised.

We sewage our first look astatine Beam — past known arsenic Project Starline — in 2021. The holographic teleconferencing system uses 3D imaging, spatial audio and adaptive lighting to make video chats much immersive. Beam is chiefly intended for endeavor clients (the first specified instrumentality costs $25,000), but it's absorbing to spot Google exploring different applications for nan tech.