"Human Uber" Technology Allows Someone To Attend Events For You Wearing A Video Screen With Your Face
NY Mag - At the MIT Tech Review’s EmTech (the “em” stands for “emerging”) conference in Asia this week, researchers showed off a Human Uber, in which someone straps a screen to their face and fills in for someone else. Jin Rekimoto, a Japanese AR/VR researcher affiliated with Sony, showed the tech off using some very funny photos. The tech, known as ChameleonMask, “uses a real human as a surrogate for another remote user. To do this, a surrogate user wears a mask-shaped display that shows a remote user’s live face, and a voice channel transmits a remote user’s voice.” It looks, to be sure, extremely natural and not unsettling. According to Rekimoto, “Our pilot study confirmed that people could regard the masked person as a right person.” The developers also tested cosplaying as an anime character in real life.
Japan just when I thought you couldnt possibly be any weirder, you go and do something like this… and TOTALLY REDEEM YOURSELF!
