# Google Beam connects deployed service members with families through USO partnership

> Original title: How Google Beam connects military families globally

- Source: Google · Innovation & AI
- Published: 2026-10-26T13:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/nciqw9xkx7qq5sfhkyou0f3zg
- Original: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/research/google-beam-uso-docuseries-service-members/

## Summary

Google and the USO are bringing Google Beam, a 3D video communication system built with HP, to 20 USO locations worldwide so deployed service members can see loved ones in lifelike video calls. Google Beam began a pilot connecting families in Trzebień, Poland, and Fort Bliss, Texas, and is expanding to Grafenwöhr, Germany, and Fort Hood, Texas. Google released a docuseries following four families of soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 37th Armored Regiment.