{"id":57358,"date":"2017-05-14T00:29:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T07:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/this-guy-designed-a-hologram-virtual-assistant-that-actually-works-just-watch"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:01:20","slug":"this-guy-designed-a-hologram-virtual-assistant-that-actually-works-just-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/this-guy-designed-a-hologram-virtual-assistant-that-actually-works-just-watch","title":{"rendered":"This guy designed a hologram virtual assistant that actually works \u2014 just watch"},"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\/fggE3VI3NRg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many of us have already come to know the disembodied voices of personal assistants like Apple\u2019s Siri or Amazon\u2019s Alexa, but now a software engineer has finally put a face to a name.<\/p>\n<p>Jarem Archer, who works as a consultant through his business, <a href=\"http:\/\/unt1tled.com\/\">unt1tled<\/a>, created a hologram device to match Microsoft\u2019s Cortana personal assistant from Windows 10. She\u2019s just like Cortana the <i>Halo <\/i>character, which Microsoft based its own on \u2014 she\u2019s a slightly translucent, blue-light babe with a hip-waist-bust ratio that exposes her origins in the world of <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/topic\/gaming\">gaming<\/a>. But Archer\u2019s Cortana is 3D and paces around inside a pyramid prism that rests on a table. In his demo video, he asks Cortana if he\u2019ll need an umbrella, and she then pulls up a graphic with the temperature and assures him that it\u2019s \u201cprobably not necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just kind of seeing where this goes,\u201d Archer, 33, said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/176926\/this-guy-designed-a-hologram-virtual-assistant-that-actually-works-just-watch#.nCdikAmIz\">https:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/176926\/this-guy-designed-a-hologram....nCdikAmIz<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have already come to know the disembodied voices of personal assistants like Apple\u2019s Siri or Amazon\u2019s Alexa, but now a software engineer has finally put a face to a name. Jarem Archer, who works as a consultant through his business, unt1tled, created a hologram device to match Microsoft\u2019s Cortana personal assistant from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1923,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-holograms","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57571,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/revisions\/57571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}