At the MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference held in Singapore this [year], Japanese researcher Jun Rekimoto presented a form of tech called ChameleonMask which he dubbed a “Human Uber” that “shows a remote user’s face on the other user’s face.”
How it essentially works is: ChameleonMask uses a real human as a surrogate for another remote user. The surrogate user wears a display as a mask which shows a remote user’s live face and transmits the user’s voice.
The remote user sends the surrogate user directions on how to act, too.
A Select All report quoted Rekimoto as saying: “Our pilot study confirmed that people could regard the masked person as the right person.”
If this is so, it could really change the way we live our lives, right down to getting someone else to go to work for us every day. Right?
