DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
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DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
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Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#2Very cool.
There is a sense of irony in that Trevor Blackwell along with the other YC partners are backing a company that essentially wants to put AnyBots out of business.
Interesting none-the-less though.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#3Until you can flick your "head" in the direction of someone who just spoke outside of your field of vision, these will continue to feel like you're at a meeting in a neck brace.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#4Until you can flick your "head" in the direction of someone who just spoke outside of your field of vision, these will continue to feel like you're at a meeting in a neck brace.
It would be fun to hook up a head mounted display, so you just turn your head and the robot turns.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#5Very cool. There is a sense of irony in that Trevor Blackwell along with the other YC partners are backing a company that essentially wants to put AnyBots out of business. Interesting none-the-less though.
FWIW, Trevor (tlb) made a comment in a previous DoubleRobotics thread:
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#6This reminds of that board meeting scene in Demolition Man with all the monoliths with screens each projecting a participant's face on them.
It seems interesting but I wonder if people would welcome this. Having an iPad with my boss' face on it rolling behind me at work feels creepy.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#7It's not sexy, it's f'd up when someone annoys you with a Skype-Segway.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#8Until you can flick your "head" in the direction of someone who just spoke outside of your field of vision, these will continue to feel like you're at a meeting in a neck brace.
It would be fun to hook up a head mounted display, so you just turn your head and the robot turns.
or just use the accelerometer of the ipad. turn yourself and and the ipad to look around the room. Would feel like you were moving a virtual window around. I doubt the robot can react fast enough for it to feel natural though.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#9Can they include a pleasant "walking" noise (or something more abstract) so that it isn't sneaking up on you all the time? It looks a bit too sneaky in this video.
Re: DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
#10Very cool. How about a bunch of these located in places like the Louvre, the British Museum, that become available to rent when the museums are closed to physically-present tourists?
The timezones work out great for people in the US, and the museums have nothing to lose since it's all incremental revenue.