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Now that people are coming up with ways to put people's real facial expressions in VR, most video calls are probably going to be replaced with avatars generated
by natrius 10y ago
Now that people are coming up with ways to put people's real facial expressions in VR, most video calls are probably going to be replaced with avatars generated from your face that use your facial expressions captured by the front-facing camera.
https://vimeo.com/156034648 https://vimeo.com/156034648
- starquake 10y agoI think a floating head is a lot scarier than people not looking directly at me...
- carey 10y agoI was imagining something a bit more like http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920 http://store.steampowered.com/app/274920.
- mrdan 10y agoOr as in Ghost in the Shell. Hard to tell since it's a cartoon, but their video calls always seemed like they were supposed to be looking at a representation of the other person: https://youtu.be/bv3Xyt-0V6s?t=4m30s https://youtu.be/bv3Xyt-0V6s?t=4m30s
- ethanbond 10y agoInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace has a remarkable little snippet on this. I'll try to find it and respond back. Edit: http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527 http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527 Published in 1996