It is indeed. I guess we all find a way to escape from reality. Some watch a movie, some surf the web, some go on holiday.It’s creepy that we all interact with each other via text in this virtual forum so often.
maybe it’s just the time I grew up in but something else comes to mind when I see this…This is an impressive forward-thinking technology but I'm not a fan of 3D Spatial Personas'. It just looks creepy. No matter who it's going to be. It will always remind me of Zuckerberg.
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I mean the cameras are always running, and just by nature of using it, it's constantly taking footage of you and everything and everyone around you. You're essentially viewing a 3D version of life through screens. But even with some of the creepiest features being opt in, I can't imagine anyone deciding to drop $3500 and not taking full advantage of everything these goggles have to offer.Everything you listed would be entirely voluntary though, not sure I'd label it invasive when you are choosing to do it.
Sorry to tell you this, but no one really cares about your personal life.Put this thing on so it can scan your face... scan your voice... scan your house... scan your family... track your eyes to see what's going on inside your brain... And this is only Gen 1. If you think things are scary and invasive now, just wait.
There was a part of the keynote where a dad was taking a spacial video of his kid's birthday celebration. Who would be like "hold on, sweetie, before you blow those candles, let daddy get his space goggles on so he can take a spacial video of you." Most humans would just choose to be there in the moment with their child, not watch it through a face computer.Why does it seem "creepy" to you. Please explain.
Right? Why does Apple feel the need to recreate a digital version of a user when there is a much easier solution…let the user themselves do a FaceTime call with others who are also actually/physically on the call too. This solution is creating complexity where there was none, just so you can have the person being in a floating window within a user’s AR world.I don’t want to interact with peoples’ personas, I want to interact with them as they actually are. Especially people I’m close to, children and grandchildren come to mind. I want them to interact with me as well.
Zoinks Scooby! Its a g-g-ghost!
Apple's new Vision Pro headset can scan a user's face and use advanced machine learning to create a photorealistic "Persona" of them for video calls. And in a future visionOS update, these avatars will become even more realistic.
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Spatial Persona on Vision Pro
In its Platforms State of the Union video for developers this week, Apple announced that it is working on "Spatial Personas" that will allow Vision Pro users to "break out of the familiar FaceTime tile and feel more present, like they are gathered in the same physical space." Spatial Personas will have a transparent background and be able to display more movement and body language for a more lifelike experience.
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A regular Persona on Vision Pro
Spatial Personas will be available on FaceTime calls, including for SharePlay sessions.
"In a SharePlay session, Spatial Personas let you feel present with others in a way technology has never enabled before," said Apple, in a related WWDC video. "You can look your friends in the eye, express yourself naturally with movement and body language, and best of all, enjoy a shared activity together using your app."
Apple said a developer preview of Spatial Personas will be available later this year, but it did not indicate when the feature will be publicly released. Vision Pro does not launch until early 2024 in the U.S. and will be priced at $3,499.
Article Link: Vision Pro to Get Even More Human-Like 'Spatial Personas' for FaceTime
So how is this any different from Daddy deciding to take a picture or video of this birthday celebration and whips out his iPhone or video camera and starts to film? It isn't any different. It's a way to preserve the moment. If iPhone video and Vision Pro don't fit into your philosophy of life and child rearing, don't use the devices. But please don't tell me I'm destroying my kid's life by stopping "human interaction" by recording the event. That's so absurd to me.There was a part of the keynote where a dad was taking a spacial video of his kid's birthday celebration. Who would be like "hold on, sweetie, before you blow those candles, let daddy get his space goggles on so he can take a spacial video of you." Most humans would just choose to be there in the moment with their child, not watch it through a face computer.
The "Steve Jobs would never have approved this" is a cliche now, but it's undeniable that when Steve was running Apple there was a relentless focus on human-friendly design in every product. He uniquely understood how regular people would use those devices. I fear that's the biggest thing we lost with his passing. Vision Pro is an engineering marvel but it feels like a product made by engineers, not regular humans.
I got to thinking about Ready Player One. Where the virtual world allows anyone to look like anything they want. The introduction of "the OASIS" is great. This is basically the vision of the "metaverse" but coming up with a virtual persona is part of that vision and could be yet another way people are able to express themselves as they see themselves. And that is important.
Ever heard of uncanny valley? Pretty much everyone using this thing expressed the same opinion. The avatar-persona IS creepy. Denying it is just intellectually dishonest.Why does it seem "creepy" to you. Please explain.
Not really. Humans have been interacting via text for millennia, there is nothing weird about it. It is well known that if you interact via in intermediary it has to be human or not human at all. Human-like things creep us out.It’s creepy that we all interact with each other via text in this virtual forum so often.
People don’t have to come up with anything. People are people, not a trillion dollars company. Apple is proposing a product, THEY have to convince the world it’s worth buying. If there is no viable way to use FaceTime with that thing on then perhaps FaceTime shouldn’t be part of it.Instead of just criticizing Apple you could come up with a practical way of doing this. I'll bet you can't. People here are quick to criticize every little Apple thing but don't come up with better ways of doing it. It's a good compromise. I guess you could open a Facetime connection and hold your iPhone in front of your goggle covered face to send to someone for that personal touch you need.
You answered your own question in your post it seems like. To be able to be in another place without having to travel is an end in itself because time is a valuable resource that only increases in value as one gets older (because you have less and less of it).That's how you have to think about selling virtual presence to people who aren't interested in or don't have the time to be wowed by the "#first" novelty of it... they get there and then what?
It's the "and then what" that needs figuring out.
Sometime around 2043 to 2046. But it’ll just be a copy of your brain scan. The “you” that you are now will still be in that skull.When can i just upload my consciousness?
I don't want to look more realistic, I want to look 20 years younger.