This is kind of interesting as the University of Tokyo came out with something similar with their Tele-Existance/Crystal Vision/X-tal Vision projects.
(Remember the article on slashdot about the "cloaking" technology they were working on?)
Though their goal appeared to be to project a user's image onto a robot dummy and have the robot do things remotely. (Which is probably overkill anyway.)
A while back, I wrote an article on how this could be applied to education, interestingly enough, which can be read here:
Nowadays I'm more of the opinion that companies and universities don't care whether or not you can unravel their sweaters by pulling at a single string. It was a cute trick 10 years ago, but its just getting tiring now.
Alot of modern society is based on such concepts as "trusted networks" - not in the computer sense, but in the social sense. You're free to the services an entity provides, but please don't abuse them.
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This is kind of interesting as the University of Tokyo came out with something similar with their Tele-Existance/Crystal Vision/X-tal Vision projects.
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(Remember the article on slashdot about the "cloaking" technology they were working on?)
Though their goal appeared to be to project a user's image onto a robot dummy and have the robot do things remotely. (Which is probably overkill anyway.)
A while back, I wrote an article on how this could be applied to education, interestingly enough, which can be read here:
http://tatewake.com/WhatIsTheFutureOfDistanceLear
Nowadays I'm more of the opinion that companies and universities don't care whether or not you can unravel their sweaters by pulling at a single string. It was a cute trick 10 years ago, but its just getting tiring now.
Alot of modern society is based on such concepts as "trusted networks" - not in the computer sense, but in the social sense. You're free to the services an entity provides, but please don't abuse them.
Personally I think it works better that way.