Google has been promoting the concept of the project Starline for years, promising to reconsider how to communicate with each other from afar. And from next year, it may eventually become a reality.

Google launched the Project Starline AI video calling platform next year, confirmed in a blog post on Monday (5/13). The company had shared valuable details about how its launch would take place, but Google said it would make PROJECT Starline available for HP products first.

"We are partnering with HP to begin commercializing this unique experience in 2025," Google wrote in a blog post."We're working to make it possible directly from the video conferencing services we use today, such as Google Meet and Zoom."Google first unveiled the concept for Project Starline in 2021 and said it believed there was a future where people making video calls thousands of miles away could communicate as if they were in the same room. Using 3D, Project Starline works with a "magic window" that allows users to look through and hold video calls in 3D.

"You can talk to others, make gestures, and make eye contact just as you would if you were in the same room," Google said in its post.

The search giant said it has been testing Project Starline for quite some time and has recorded "thousands of hours" of test time to make sure it works well.Google found it to offer a host of long-range communication improvements, including "better attentiveness, memory recall and an overall sense of presence.""

Perhaps most importantly, the Project Starline will create a more realistic experience. Rather than simply looking through the screen to see who is recorded on camera, Project Starline makes you feel like you're in a room with them,

In addition to making for more realistic conversations, it also changes behavior. In fact, Google said that nonverbal communication, such as head nod, hand gestures and subtle expressions, will increase by as much as 50% with Project Starline calls compared to traditional video calls.

However, the main issue at present is focused on how this works. Neither Google nor HP said how Project Starline will be integrated into HP machines next year, and whether it will be available on all HP devices, or in a small subset. It's also unclear how much it will cost (whether it will cost anything) and whether there are other barriers for users to consider. Instead, the company said it expects future implementation. 

Besides HP, questions remain about whether Google will bring Project Starline to the machines of other PC manufacturers or offer it on mobile.

For now, many questions remain. But for when Google finally launches a compelling platform that we've been hearing for years, it's time to see Google finally putting the date in the book.