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I'm sure I've read sci fi that uses the idea - they have extremely limited bandwidth so they make up for it with aggressive compression and reconstruction that
by roywiggins 10y ago
I'm sure I've read sci fi that uses the idea - they have extremely limited bandwidth so they make up for it with aggressive compression and reconstruction that more or less reduces people to a handful of parameters and uses those to animate an avatar. It relies on computation being a LOT cheaper than bandwidth.
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- cpeterso 10y agoI think Verner Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep describes a teleconferencing system based on avatar models combined with the receiving side's video image history of the sender. It really had nothing to do with the story, other than a technical detour about ship-to-ship communication. The novel also had a galaxy-spanning Usenet-like system that was part of the story. :)
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- mikeash 10y agoVinge's A Fire Upon the Deep features this, with some hilarity and a bit of foreshadowing.