Omnipresenz. A new way to remotely live a life of another person. The whole concept is that through the internet, you remotely instruct your avatar(a real person live in another country) what to do. It is like a online role play game except you are controlling a real person in a real world affecting real people. A refreshing way to be socialised online. The principle is that the "avatar" will have a gopro mounted on their head, and stream the live feed through the internet onto the "player's" screen, and so the player will be able to see and hear everything from the avatar's end.
It is a unique concept of revolutionise the social media chiches, when everything you do today to be "socialise" is typing over the internet. This project allows a person to actually interact with people on the other side of the planet. It seems like a great idea yet it may not be as ideal as it seems.
The downside of this idea is that the social interaction is a on-way deal, as a player you would be able to see and hear from the other end. However, the community you are interacting online do not really receive anything from you other than the action came from the avatar, which was instructed by you. One may argue that as long as the avatar does what it`s been taught then it is both way interaction. But what I feel of this is that the avatar only represent you to some extent, they do not have the same feeling as you do and the same responds as you may have. In the sense, the interaction happens here is not a true social interaction, because the community is more likely meant to respond to your avatar rather than you the player.
Nonetheless, this is still a sole idea which could reinvent the meaning of social media and social networking. But before then, it will only remain something quite different that does not really apply to the real worl.
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