Times of India ( 06 Feb )
carries following news :
Now, pay a surrogate to
live your life as you
System Allows One To Strap On A Screen Showing Your
Face So You Can ‘Remote-Control’ Your Routine
A new “human Uber” could let you pay someone to
live your life for you. Japanese researcher Jun Rekimoto has
developed a special
screen that can be strapped to a person’s face and allow them to live on
your behalf. By dressing up as you and having your face shown where theirs
usually is, you’ll be able to pay someone to go about your life instead.
The technology is aimed at allowing someone — a “surrogate”— to live your
life for you, wearing your clothes and behaving on your instruction. You, on
the other hand, would be able to lounge at home, watching events through your
laptop and using its camera to communicate with people your surrogate meets.
“To do this, a surrogate user wears a mask-shaped display that
shows a remote user’s live face, and a voice channel transmits a remote user’s
voice,” a page describing the tool, known as ChameleonMask, reads.
“A surrogate user mimics a remote user by following
the remote user’s directions... This design is based on our hypothesis assuming
physical and social tele-presence can be embodied by such a surrogate human who
imitates the remote user,” it adds.
Such telepresence systems have been developed
before. But they have mostly been mounted on robots, which the person talking
could then drive around, giving the feeling of being in the office, conference
or other space that can only be joined over the internet.
In contrast, the ChameleonMask appears to give a
more complete experience, with the screen being carried around by a person who
can also be dressed the same as the user might be.
The experience is much better than those robots,
its creator claims.
“It also eliminates many difficulties of tele-operated
robots wandering in the envi- ronment,” the page describing the innovation
claims. Experiments have shown that people are able to think of the surrogate
as the real person, it also claims.
Though the mask has been described as “human Uber”,
it’s actually far more involved than that. Rather than transporting something,
the person is required to live as you and behave on your instruction. It was
shown off last week at the EmTech conference, where a user tweeted a picture of
the strange contraption that was later shared by tens of thousands of people.
Why might Shree Modiji want to read this ?
For the following reason :
·
During 2014 General Elections , he had
pioneered the revolutionary “ Election
Campaign
Strategy “ of addressing 800 election rallies through holographic
projection
of himself .
In 2019 elections , expect BJP to distribute
millions of permanent
to voters ( of course , free of cost ),
instead of those temporary paper masks.
Just
imagine the thrill of millions of voters being able to ask questions to Shree
Modi ,
remotely and getting instant “ answers “ in his voice / face-gestures !
Then ,
after returning to power ( with 400 + seats , if my suggestion gets implemented
) , expect Shree Modi to bid goodbye to All India Radio for his “ Man Ki Baat “ broadcasts and switch-over to “ Mask Ki Baat “
!
07 Feb 2018
www.hemenparekh.in
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