Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR

Re:Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR by gregmac on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:01PM (#18295345)

It'll be interesting to see how this feels for collaboration compared to current video chat. It clearly has the advantage of allowing people to 'interact' with things in the space, but you lose the feedback aspect of people's facial expressions.

With video, especially in a group, you can see if people are following what you say, nodding or shaking heads, have confused looks, or are not engaged (or falling asleep). Compared to voice-only discussions, for example, sometimes people won't ask the question if they're confused, presumably thinking they're the only one and don't want to waste others time and/or embarrass themselves.

Maybe facial expressions can be emulated -- but there's a very big uncanny valley to get over to make that usable.

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Re:Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR by neolander on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @07:59PM (#18297533)

I think the initial use case of this will be with everyone’s videos in rectangles floating in space. People are already comfortable with video. It’s much more natural to glance at a shared workspace and then up at them, than it is in a current call where their video gets covered by another window on your screen.

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Re:Spatial – Collaborate from anywhere in AR by gregmac on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:04PM (#18297553)

That doesn't work well if everyone is constantly turning away from the camera, not to mention has an AR headset covering most of their face.

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