Yes, even better! Team work!
Note, I am available as a part time editor and payable in vintage Star Wars Figures.
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321K yen is just the initial payment. After it’s been recording you for a few months, you start getting the BIG bills.
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I predict tentacles same day as release.
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That’s what I thought it was going to be to. I am disappoint.
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I know it’s fashionable to mock lonely salarymen, and the pricepoint is a bit crazy.
But I absolutely see the appeal of an Alexa-like product that also has an avatar, and could communicate with me via text messages. I mean yeah, my family isn’t in the market for a waifu, but if you had other options like a little Totoro creature or something else cute and non-sexual, my kids would absolutely love using it.
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Sure, but that film was an indie about a man who forms a platonic bond with a sex toy.
I believe you’re really thinking about Spike Jones’s movie Her (2013) in wich Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with Siri.
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Recently I noticed that Spotify has started to make monthly virtual mix tapes for me, based on my listening habits. They’re surprisingly good.
I already have most of my kitchen appliances hooked up to timers. It saves energy and gets breakfast started earlier. Syncing them via an app is the next available step.
I could go on, but isn´t it mostly just the waifu aspect of this gadget that we find sad and creepy? If I were to, say, re-skin it with a Dobby the House Elf theme, or make the hologram look like Stephen Fry playing Jeeves, wouldn’t it be hella cool?
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Probably a Tengu sleeve in there
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So, no real fried eggs? Bah.
Also, no virtual boyfriend for lonely women or gay men?
Then you come home early one day and find she’s screwing the roomba.
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If you think there is a business opportunity then why don’t you make this very thing?
Probably because I have no coding skills whatsoever, to start with…
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Trying not to be too judgy, really I am, but the ad at least is unbelievably sad. There are lots of people who don’t have a physical person to come home to, but surely they’d prefer to send texts and spend time with an online friend who is a real person somewhere, rather than deluding themselves with a rudimentary chatbot?
Deeply depressing advert. But I do think this might help some people with anxiety and intimacy issue.
I assume that the ‘sad and creepy’/‘japan weird anime sex’ angle is getting all the attention because otherwise the product is basically just Amazon’s little surveillance puck in a more sophisticated box; which is pretty thin material to talk about. Especially since the product appears to be a simple short-throw projection onto a semitransparent screen, nothing particularly ‘holographic’.
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How annoying to have an Alexa or Cortana or Siri that nags you 12x a day to come home when you are working. I get the need for human interaction, but this doesn’t seem to include any of the good parts of human interaction.
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