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Gurman: FaceTime for Apple AR/VR Headset Could Rely on Memojis and SharePlay
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Right! Even the thought of it sounds so unprofessional. What happened to making eye contact during the presentation? We will be relying on looking at some avatar?Well if your wearing a AR/VR headset your face can’t be seen. Still no one should attend a FaceTime conference wearing that $2000 headset in the first place IMHO, but in virtual worlds your whole body could be some form of avatar, just not a emoji.
It's a distraction, trying to figure out what the other person looks like. Is Memoji is what’s it going to take to impress Tim Cook?
If someone is so self conscience that their are concealing with an avatar in a business meeting, that tells me enough that this person is not leadership material. Same goes for dating or anything else. Enough said.Well if your wearing a AR/VR headset your face can’t be seen. Still no one should attend a FaceTime conference wearing that $2000 headset in the first place IMHO, but in virtual worlds your whole body could be some form of avatar, just not a emoji.
LOL $2000 VR Memojis, looks are Apple VR will be a huge success, just like the HomePod.
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It’s a gimmick like Memoji’s. It’s fun to try and play funny games with children and then after the novelty wears out quickly.
I thank everyone who purchases this expensive paperweight, my Apple stock needs a boost. 😁
My guess would be airmat or whatever that wireless charging thing was called…
Yeah I remember, that Apple charging mattress that never got released.
Must be rocket science or Nokia just came from outer world.
Is anyone asking for any of this?
I can’t seem me wanting it or using it.
Also, how’s the headset going to see your whole face to show full emotions? FaceTime gets to see your full face but a AR headset covers your eyes. Will it have LiDAR on the inside and one pointing at your mouth too?
I can’t seem me wanting it or using it.
Also, how’s the headset going to see your whole face to show full emotions? FaceTime gets to see your full face but a AR headset covers your eyes. Will it have LiDAR on the inside and one pointing at your mouth too?
So software is going to fill in CHUNKS of missing facial data, got it. ?
Aside from a cool few VR games I've tried, I struggle to find how VR has so much hype? It's the classic solution desperately searching for a problem. Even the few games I played I'd rather play with a controller and TV or mouse and keyboard.
Maybe Apple has seen the future and we will be amazed by it but I feel like this is a bunch of executives trying desperately to come up with the next big thing and its just not working.
Maybe Apple has seen the future and we will be amazed by it but I feel like this is a bunch of executives trying desperately to come up with the next big thing and its just not working.
You're thinking emojis, not memoji. Two different things.
Everyone is shooting down the idea of memojis, but there's some very good reasons for using that over a video stream. Only "instructions" need to be sent between parties, which can be highly compressed, so super efficient.
Once a 3-D face is loaded, the rest is just orientation and modification instructions, such as winks and smiles.
I applaud Apple for thinking different.
I can't even make a life like memoji of me to even begin using it online and I'm not going to spend an hour fiddling with the Memoji interface just to have something other than my already beautiful face to be available.. why not just use AI to fake a face?
Memojis in a VR setting? Sure,, if Apple makes a program that can determine my features much faster via camera than I can by looking.
Are we excluding blind people from the VR adventure? I think that's cultural appropriation and racist HAHAHA
edit.. I'm an idiot and don't not anyone tell me any different. m'kay
Memojis in a VR setting? Sure,, if Apple makes a program that can determine my features much faster via camera than I can by looking.
Are we excluding blind people from the VR adventure? I think that's cultural appropriation and racist HAHAHA
edit.. I'm an idiot and don't not anyone tell me any different. m'kay
Well, no one here has an idea of what exactly Apple could do with this and how it’s incorporated. I do think there is some ‘entertainment value’ here, it’s probably one of the many side capabilities that this headset might be capable of. But why don’t we wait and see before everybody lambastes it, but then again, it’s the popular Internet thing to do.
Good idea. Can totally see them using AI to automatically generate Memojis!
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I cannot see VR in its current clunky form factor to sell as much volume as a Mac much less an iPhone.
I pity parents of kids who'll be whiny about not having one.
This is why it's good to explain financial literacy as early as the kids understand object permanence.
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I doubt Apple does or expect that to happen either. If they position it as a high price add on for artists, scientists etc they may move enough to afford R\D on it but that’s a big maybe. Think the 3D modeling in Jurassic Park…
Which kind of shows your lack of understanding if you’re comparing an AR/VR headset to an iPhone. Totally different use cases that don’t even belong in the same category. Is this a niche product? Absolutely. Apple knows that. But we don’t know where they’re gearing this product and how they will market it. There has to be another level of usefulness for a product like this other than just ‘Memojis’, like in the professional standard for training with the likes of surgical training procedures, automotive dynamics, engineering design, etc.