Can’t Make It To Dinner? Send a Robot Proxy For your Place [Video]

Sometimes it’s just unattainable to get all of your family together for the holidays. So why not bring avatars of relations together instead?

Sometimes, it’s just very unlikely to get your entire family together for the holidays. So why not bring  avatars of kinfolk together instead? Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam put together a clever recognition app that enables Skype callers to manipulate custom-built mechanical dolls with head movements.

The ad agency placed five of its mechanical dolls around a table, and for three days this past month, visitors to the Virtual Holiday Dinner website could reserve 15 minute slots to sit down around the table with friends and family. In total, Wieden+Kennedy rounded up 156 people from six continents to participate.

The dinner was an undeniable success (and a brand-booster for Wieden+Kennedy), nonetheless it doesn’t mean that we’re able to relinquish holiday celebrations to our avatars. Robot proxies will probably be useful in office situations, as now we have mentioned before-but the concept of hugging a robot version of Aunt Joanne at the family party remains somewhat off-putting.

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