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0 pointselcritch2y ago0 comments

With digital avatars you can fix the gaze offset issues.

It's oddly draining doing zoom or meets where you can't make mutual eye contact. If you look at the camera you cant see their eyes, and vice versa.

If the digital avatar is as good as it looks, it could resolve that and make teleconferencing less exhausting. Not to mention worry less if you're having a bad hair day. ;)

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happymellon2y ago

I guess my point was that digital avatars are being bundled with AR/VR but they dont have a lot to do with it. What you are describing happens today without VR, so having these avatars from or to my iPad would be a benefit.

I don't see what the headset brings to the table other than forcing people to fix existing issues.

The experience is worse because the VR now introduces avatars so I can pretend to pay attention whilst doing coding, whereas if it was on my iPad I could do coding, unload the washing machine, etc. It is restrictive.

Also fixing the eye focus is already a thing for streamers and ML video correction.

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happymellon2y ago

I don't see what the headset brings to the table other than forcing people to fix existing issues.

Also fixing the eye focus is already a thing for streamers and ML video correction.

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