Google I/O 2025: Google Launches AI-Powered 3D Video Chat Platform, Google Beam

Google has launched yet another chatting platform, called Google Beam, at the I/O 2025. Beam is a video conferencing and chatting platform that uses cameras to create a 3D avatar of people on the line. It is a rebrand of the Project Starline, making it more accessible and user-friendly. Google Beam also heavily uses artificial intelligence to offer realistic moving images — rather videos — of people.

Beam will be available to early customers, such as Deloitte, Salesforce, NEC, Duolingo, and Citadel, later this year through Google's partnership with HP. The 3D video calling service that Google has been working on for years will be integrated into Meet and rival platforms like Zoom, to make video-based communication more realistic.

Google Beam uses six cameras and a custom light field display in tandem with software optimisation to make two people sitting miles apart talk to each other as if they were sitting in the same room. It is nothing different from what Google unveiled while announcing Project Starline, but what's new is the AI integration. Google is using its Gemini model to convert videos from the cameras into a 3D rendering of the people talking to each other.

During the keynote at the I/O 2025, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the result of using this software-hardware combination offers “a very natural and a deeply immersive conversational experience.”

However, whether Google Beam can take off is yet to be seen. When Google announced Project Starline during the pandemic, the world was still adjusting to the new normal of remote work, online education, and virtual meetups. But, as businesses have fully transitioned to in-office setups, the appeal of a 3D video chat platform is not what it was during the pandemic.

At the conference, Pichai also announced a new Agent Mode for Gemini, Chrome, and Search that helps get basic things like booking a ticket done using an AI agent.

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