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If they can deliver on presence, where I can look into someone's eyes in VR and have a conversation and feel like I'm with them in the room, I'll buy everyone i
by celestialcheese 4y ago
If they can deliver on presence, where I can look into someone's eyes in VR and have a conversation and feel like I'm with them in the room, I'll buy everyone in my family on day one.
I get giddy thinking about being able to have weekly dinners or watch movies with my family across the country and have it feel like we're actually there. This feels far off, but it seems like zuck is getting the pieces together, like the Codec photorealistic avatars [1], to make this happen.
Facetime, Zoom, etc, it's just draining not being able to hold eye contact because of camera placement. And people get distracted. And the current products, BigscreenVR and the weird cartoon avatars and VRChat, just don't do it for me.
FB will probably fuck this up, but I see the vision.
1 - https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22751177/facebook-meta-codec-avatar-real-time-environment-rendering-neural-interface https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22751177/facebook-meta-c...
- was_a_dev 4y agoVideo calls already are deemed acceptable for a lot of people. But don't offer anywhere near the realism you describe. I reckon VR will win before being truly realistic
- travbrack 4y agoMaybe a GAN could be used to bridge the gap. A little creepy but it's definitely good enough to trick my brain. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/05/gan-video-conferencing-maxine/ https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/10/05/gan-video-conferenc...
- KVFinn 4y ago>I get giddy thinking about being able to have weekly dinners or watch movies with my family across the country and have it feel like we're actually there. It's ridiculous how technology hasn't been able to replicate the 'hanging out on a couch watching Netflix or playing a videogame together' experience. All I need is the audio and video synching to work, with no feedback, and low latency conversation. I feel like you could stick a TV on your couch with a cellphone on top and accomplish this. Facebook could start by letting you do the most basic stuff like watch Netflix together. (Also it would help if Netflix wasn't 480P...)
- vanilla_nut 4y agoNetflix had a sharing feature exactly like this that worked over Xbox Live on the 360 back in 2012 or so. Live audio chat was pretty low latency if I remember correctly so it was a pleasant experience. Astonishing that that feature seems to be dead and we don’t have any kind of decent replacement for it. I got a lot of mileage out of it watching crappy movies with friends.
- towaway15463 4y agoPrime Video has a Watch Party mode. There are also 3rd party options for Netflix. If the people you want to hang with are tech literate you can host a discord server and stream video in a voice channel.
- erikpukinskis 4y agoThis. Literally all they need is eye contact, positional voice chat, and virtual screens and they’re done. Doesn’t need to be realistic at all.