• Google has rebranded Project Starline as Beam, a new 3D video communication platform using AI-powered volumetric video to simulate lifelike, natural interactions with precise head tracking, 60 fps 3D visuals, and light field display.
• Beam enhances 2D video calls with a 3D-like experience, preserving depth perception, eye contact, and subtle human cues—plus, live speech translation is now integrated and available in Google Meet.
• Beam is part of Google’s broader AI push, alongside Gemini’s evolution into a full AI operating system, featuring tools like Gemini Live, Imagen 4, Veo 3, Deep Research, and Canvas; an HP device with built-in Beam is slated for late 2025.

Google has revealed a rebranding of its Project Starline with a new 3D video communication platform called Beam in its Google I/O 2025 conference. The AI-based platform is supposed to redefine video interactions. Along with Beam, Google is also developing its AI tool Gemini into a more advanced AI operating system with the inclusion of a number of interactive tools such as Gemini Live, Imagen 4, Veo3, Deep Research, and Canvas. 

Based on a Google blog post, Beam presents a more AI-infused experience that takes basic 2D video and makes it come alive as 3D-like visuals. It does so by using different webcam arrays to record a picture from different directions, combining these streams of video to produce a 3D light field screen. Google brags that this device has very precise head tracking and is able to display 3D video at a whopping 60 frames per second (fps).

Beam features an AI volumetric video model that is meant to offer a natural 3D experience in 2D video streams. This enables users to experience a 3D-like sensation without losing depth perception, light field display, eye contact, and the capacity to read subtle cues when interacting with others.

This new platform is to replace Project Starline, which was first unveiled at Google I/O back in 2021. Project Starline's initial aim was to create a 3D video communication solution on a natural scale, and that vision has come to rest in Beam.

Furthermore, Google is also developing the inclusion of live speech translation within Beam, and this feature will be available for use within Google Meet from today. The company is also working with HP to develop a device with Google Beam built into it, which will arrive later in 2025 with announcements planned at InfoComm 2025 next month.

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