1. the phenomenon of VTubers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_YouTuber
2. in the virtual animal crossing late night show, Animal Talking, the presenter's (Gary Whitta) avatar doesn't really resemble how the presenter looks in real life https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Talking_with_Gary_Whi...
3. I watch a lot of interview s with people in VR Chat and it's very interesting how people seem to find it easier(?) to open up while they are embodying a character. https://youtu.be/KZWOXgc7PA4
Being able to experiment with identity in this way is really interesting to me, and I hope it becomes more mainstream with the proliferation of this technology
Viola! My deep fake can stand in at meetings now while I code.
Today's meeting was an hour-and-a-half spent on bike-shedding the position--and color--of the "logout" button on our product page.
15 minutes were spent debating the resident usability expert who suggested white text on a dark blue background would be more readable for people with low vision. The department manager insisted on retaining pastel blue as it is his favorite color.
45 minutes were spent arguing over whether "logout" or "log out" comprises proper semantics. Our linguistic expert was unfortunately not able to attend as she was sent on a business trip earlier in the week.
The last 30 minutes were focused on team-building exercises as Bob doodled on his tablet and Susan smiled politely at the speaker whilst screaming internally as she had 3 more meetings to attend before her department could move forward.
WFH hasn't lessened the amount of bullshit, but it's become more tolerable. I mute my mic and put on a playlist with elevator music.
Now all I need is an AI standin and this summarizer and we've basically achieved universal basic income.
45 minutes were spent by humans arguing over whether "logout" or "log out", while I created both buttons (GPT-3 can already do that) and A/B tested it.
Perhaps the example was a best-case, and the usual improvement is about 10x. (That or 'order of magnitude' has gone the way of 'exponential' in popular use. I don't think I've noticed that elsewhere, though.)
Humans becoming more and more dependent on virtual face-to-face meetings and also relying on embellishment of their supposed appearance through the screen. It reminds me of how SciFi authors predicted technology, but with a complimentary commentary on human psychology.
Sorry if it isn't directly related to the post, but it is so striking to me.
Real-time silly hats for people I talk to and I'm sold.
They had no idea.
I mean taking away focus on things that doesn't matter in a virtual meeting such as: Where you are sitting - via Virtual Background Your daily hair style status or if you have a nose pimple - Via NVIDIAs AI showcased here. Would be great.
Though replacing yourself with a "digital" avatar I think takes away many of the benefits an actual live meeting provides.
sure is .. if you stream your face at >30-50Mbit/s. For contrast highest bitrate available on Twitch, used for streaming high motion full screen updating twitchy 1080@60 gaming, is ~6-8Mbit/s.
I dunno that I'd call it three orders - it's close at about 830x - but it's definitely not even close to being one order either.
"An order-of-magnitude difference between two values is a factor of 10. For example, the mass of the planet Saturn is 95 times that of Earth, so Saturn is two orders of magnitude more massive than Earth."
$ bc -l
l(835)/l(10)
2.92168647548360208478
"a new car is an order of magnitude difference in price compared to a used car" is appropriate even if a new car is 40k and a used car is 5k
Electric cars have two orders of magnitude less energy storage than gasoline cars, but newer ones are only one order of magnitude.
A nitpick, perhaps, but isn't that three orders of magnitude?
We've already seen people use outlandish backgrounds in calls, now it's going to be possible to design similar outlandish views, but actually be this new invention in real time. There's been a lot of discussion centered around deep fakes and its problems, this is essentially deep faking yourself into whatever you want.
Video calls are a very important form of communication at the moment, if this becomes as accepted as background modification, that would open the societal door to a whole range of self presentation that up till now was restricted to in game virtual characters.
I wonder what kind of implications that could have. Would people come to identify themselves strongly with a virtual avatar, perhaps stronger than their real life "avatar"? It is an awesome freedom to have, to remake yourself.