Telepresence, say hello on your future. Humans, say hello to a higher generation of Chancellor Sutler. All jesting aside, there is not any question that Big Brother came to mind when eying Sony Computer Science Laboratories’ Face-to-Avatar concept at SIGGRAPH. For all intents and purposes, it is a motorized blimp with a front-facing camera, microphone, a built-in projector and a WiFi module. It’s able to hovering above crowds so that it will showcase a picture of what is below, or displaying a picture of whatever’s being streamed to its wireless apparatus. The folk we spoke to perceived to think that it was still many years out from being in a marketable state, but we will think about a number of governments who’d probably be right down to buy in immediately. Kidding. Ominous video (and static male figurehead) await you after the break.
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