{"id":32756,"date":"2016-12-16T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/this-is-the-holographic-ai-servant-of-your-dreamsor-maybe-your-nightmares"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:39","slug":"this-is-the-holographic-ai-servant-of-your-dreamsor-maybe-your-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/this-is-the-holographic-ai-servant-of-your-dreamsor-maybe-your-nightmares","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Holographic AI Servant of Your Dreams\u2026or Maybe Your Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nkcKaNqfykg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to her profile, \u201cShe is a comforting character that is great to those living alone. She will always do all she can just for the owner.\u201d How thoughtful and sweet. Except she comes with a $2,600 price tag (and her US version will be sold for $3,000). So, caring for her \u201cowner\u201d is the least she can do, right?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The hologram bot is based on a Japanese anime character, but she isn\u2019t going to be the only character for <i>Gatebox<\/i>. From the looks of the website, the company is going to make other characters available, presumably also from anime.<\/p>\n<p>Azuma\u2019s hologram appears inside the main tube body of <i>Gatebox<\/i>, projected at a 1280 \u00d7 720 resolution. The hardware itself weighs 5kg, has stereo speakers, a microphone, and a camera mounted on top. Azuma is built with a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/images\/understanding-machine-learning-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">machine learning<\/a> algorithm, that helps her recognize her \u201cmaster\u2019s\u201d voice, learn his sleeping habits, and send him messages through <i>Gatebox<\/i>\u2019s native chat app.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Azuma will work for some, but she might not cut it for others \u2014 going home to a cartoonish AI hologram could take some getting used to. Anyway, <i>Gatebox<\/i> is certainly trying to disrupt the virtual assistant space. However, we still seem to be far from that holographic projection that we\u2019re really be looking for.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-is-the-holographic-ai-servant-of-your-dreams-or-maybe-your-nightmares\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/this-is-the-holographic-ai-servant-of-y...ightmares\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to her profile, \u201cShe is a comforting character that is great to those living alone. She will always do all she can just for the owner.\u201d How thoughtful and sweet. Except she comes with a $2,600 price tag (and her US version will be sold for $3,000). So, caring for her \u201cowner\u201d is the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1923,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holograms","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59443,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32756\/revisions\/59443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}