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“extend our social skills and decrease our emotional labour”
This replaces your social skills and decreases your humanity.
A Japanese boffin has unveiled a novel way of catching some kip at work without your colleagues finding out – a pair of OLED “glasses” designed to act as digital eyes. The bizarre invention, dubbed AgencyGlass, was invented by Tsukuba university researcher Hirotaka Osawa. It features two small OLED screens fixed to a …
I can see this better used in Social human robotic interaction situations. Eg, the robots having something similar.
As for human use, go one step further. create a mask that covers the entire face. That way you can choose your persona that reacts with your voice in realtime.
Talking cat!
So when are we going to go from "talk to the hand!" to "talk to the avatar!"...?
I mean, how is this not fun:
- "Yo, dude, wassup?"
- "Hello mr. ABC, I'm sorry but you don't seem to have an appointment set up with mr. XYZ at this time..." (insert obligatory "...so set one up!" / "can't do that, Dave..." reference)
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