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Telepresence Via Matter Imaging
Qa32 writes "Computer scientists in the U.S. are developing a system which would allow people to convey a solid 3D recreation of themselves over the Internet. From the article: 'When you watch something created by claymation, it is a real object and it looks like it's moving itself. That's something like the idea we're doing... in our case, the idea is that you have computation in the 'clay', as though the clay can move itself.'"
Really change the future of net sex!
to being the real thing sans the nagging.
Monstar L
Great! Just what we need. A bunch of fat, bald, "claymation" old men running around in their underwear on the Internet looking for dates. It's bad enough they are already stuck behind the bright light of their computer screen doing this. Now they can practically "enter" the Internet for all to see!
Kind of reminds me of that Futurama episode where they all used VR gear to enter the Internet -- with an overall TRON-like feel. You had to love the chat rooms, with all of the guys cowering in one corner.
Don't doooo it Daaaaveeeey!!!
H.
This is computational clay. Not MAGIC clay.
Wouldn't creating a copy of another person be a form of piracy? Yet another technology that the movie/record industry will try to eliminate. After all, why should anyone be allowed to have a personal duplicate of Michael Jackson at home.
Sounds like some strange combination of the T1000 from Terminator 2 and Gumby.
A fellow slashdotter told me about the boob mouse a few weeks ago. Since getting two, I haven't left the house. With this new innovation, I may never move from the computer chair.
IF you are ugly .. i don't think the clay is gonna help. From my close friends in unnamed clans that, i have never seen before in my life... i don't want to see them, really. I really REALLY don't want to see them, just talking to them for one min on aim make me wonder why they are vergens. ;)
If this 'claymation' becomes popular.. I'm waiting for the skins hack to show up. Click here to look like Carmen Electra even though you are a 500 pound fat ass WHALE!
Screw claymation. Screw Bush! heh.. back to my sutter home.
omg, the thoughts of demolition man style sex make me wanan find whoever is doing this research and SHOOT THEM NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!!
Ok... keep Pamela Adersons "consciousness" to yourself and just give me her body ;)
I wonder what thoughts would have been conjured up in my head had I not known that 'Demolition Man' was a movie :)
Completely consuming and destroying your hand silly. All futuristic technology has to be able to spontaneously kill people as a rule.
I hope these claythings are self cleaning. There's going to be lot's of Windows (exhibitionists), BSD (necropheliacs) and Linux (afraid of girls) fans wanting to get their hands on this technology. (I'm an equal opportunity offender) ;P
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
And he stressed this would be useful for much more than simple video conferencing.
Of course it would, think of the porn. On second thought, think of the kittens.
This is more like that episode where Fry gets a robot copy of Lucy Liu. we just have to insert a blank robot in the drive and copy the information over and BAM!...a robo-mation copy of Gillian Anderson.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla