Google and HPs videoconferencing platform, Project Starline, aims to make virtual meetings feel more like in-person interactions. Illustration: Thomas R. LechleiterGoogle and HP are scheduled to release this year a 3-D video communications platform that works without requiring users to wear glasses or a headset, an effort to infuse virtual meetings with a greater sense that people are together in the same space.Video calls famously turned heel in the past few years, transforming from a panacea of the early pandemic into a soul-sapping burden for workers. Alphabets Google and HP think Project Starline is a breakthrough sufficient to take virtual communications to the next level. And based on a shockingly visceral remote conversation I just had at HPs headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., Id say they are on to something.