I say starting because having a hologram of the full body isn't here yet. Currently you have Apple's Persona avatars which include the head and upper torso, with Meta's Codec Avatars likely to ship in the next year or two. Will probably be a 2030s thing for the full body, hair physics, and clothing physics to be fully integrated.
And yes, they're not 'technically' holograms, but that doesn't matter since they are functionally the same. I'd even argue that it beats most sci-fi depictions of holograms since those tend to be ghostly and glitchy instead of fully opaque like a solid flesh and blood human is in front of you.
Holocalls are what I would consider as important as the invention of phonecalls. The idea that you can feel face to face with another person 3000 miles away and it feels like you are with them on a gut level fulfils a fundamental need given how social the human race is and how much our socialization relies on being up close with someone rather than seeing them through a small 2D rectangle.
Why is no one talking about holocalls when they are now starting to exist?
byu/DarthBuzzard inFuturology
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For the same reason nobody was blown away when we started using video calls. It was an expected change that came way later than everyone thought it would, so when it finally became common nobody’s mind was blown and we just fell into the practice.
Because no one sane wants to wear a bucket with TV on their head.
I feel like my sentiment might be the answer to your question: Video calls solved nothing for me, it wasn’t a need I had for people to be able to see my face or to see other people’s faces.
With this avatar tech, it makes me ask a different question: If I really don’t care about video calls, idk why I need avatar calling.
Just message me. Or if someone is dying call me on the phone.
I’m still trying to get my team to adapt VR online meetings lol
That would be awesome and we’d have virtual workslace etc. Give everyone a Quest 3s or something
Nobody’s talking about how Facebook apple and many more can read brainwaves…. But wait it gets worse there’s a company in So Cal that can read your thoughts and insert their voice in your head. ( This is a new form of advertising straight into your brain you’ll have 2 voices now one of you and someone else trying to tell you to stop and shop because there’s discounts in your area ) Right now all the California company is doing is reading your thoughts and trolling you until regulations roll out
Because they offer no meaningful improvement over existing video calls, with the downside of needing a 4 figure, uncomfortable, and otherwise mostly useless gadget.
I seriously doubt it will have anywhere near the impact of the original telephones. Telephones replaced what? The Telegraph? That’s a huge improvement. Replacing video chat with more expensive, less convenient video chat will only impress tech bros.