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People already walk around with skins created for themselves. Clothing choices, hair styling, tanning, tattoos, piercings, colored contacts, fur suits, teeth sh
by xboxnolifes 4mo ago
People already walk around with skins created for themselves. Clothing choices, hair styling, tanning, tattoos, piercings, colored contacts, fur suits, teeth sharpening, surgery for changing the shape of various parts of their body, and probably more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.
I don't think the people who would make AR avatars would exceed the groups of people who do the more uncommon forms of the above. A very niche thing.
- entontoent 4mo agoI doubt this will remain niche. Clothing was niche at one point. So was plastic surgery. Image filters are now ubiquitous. Also, I lived through the Second Life and Warcraft eras. Many people hunger for a form that wasn't just given to them by random chance by the universe. The internet did eventually become homogenous, but it wasn't always this way, and tens of thousands of people spent a majority of their social life in these kinds of spaces. I think in the future, there will be costume parties and entire communities where it'll be considered vulgar to insist on looking at someone's unfiltered body, in the same way it would be strange to see them without clothing.