A mask - TV screen allows everyone to lend their face to anyone and rent it as a surrogate self
Do you have the social obligations of the world, but are you bored of leaving your home? Do you want to make a strong nightlife in notorious places, but do not have the guts? Now, thanks to a new telepresence device, you can "lend" your face to another person, who - for free or for a fee - will undertake to do the "dirty" work, wearing a screen mask with your face.
The other, who may be a complete stranger, wears your face on his, as the "chameleon" mask-screen called ChameleonMask projects your face, while at the same time your voice is transmitted from afar, instead of your own. of. At the same time, the other can be dressed like you, to give a more convincing impression.
Japanese mask maker June Rekimoto, a partner at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, unveiled the innovation last week at the EmTech conference of the American technology magazine MIT Technology Review in Singapore.
As he said, he imagines that the mask can lead to the development of a new "human Uber" service, although in reality it is something more, since you do not pay someone to just take you somewhere, but to live your life in your place. The client will hire a man to roam the world wearing his face and transmitting his voice.
The remote customer-user looks at a tablet computer that transmits his face and voice to the surrogate user's mask. The latter also sees the customer's face on the back of the mask, as well as any written instructions he will type on his tablet.
Similar telepresence devices have so far been tested on robots, which, by replacing the remote user, instead participate in meetings and other events. But the ChameleonMask is the first device of its kind to use humans instead of robots as "user" extras.
According to Rekimoto, tests so far have shown that live surrogates with the mask mask are treated by other people as they would if they had the real person in front of them. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.
Source: News247