This collection of artifacts will help me to begin my “State Of The Art” of telepresence artifacts. I received it from my friend and former colleague at Bell Labs: Fabrice Poussière, thank you!
Memo: I will also have to make a SOTA of fictional/diegetic/futuristic prototypes in that field.
Dog acceptation of the collar can take some time and training.
First phone call with Yukiko: EPIC FAIL :)
The sound was really to loud and Daniel felt onto his son’s answering-machine.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazxRV-S9m4%5D
2nd phone call to Daniel’s wife. Talking about meeting each other later and traying to talk to the dog.
Daniel’s wife: “Yukiko doesn’t reply to me!”
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F5B5dOjK7U%5D
3rd phone call with Yukiko, watch it until the end!
The starting of the conversation is a bit tensed, they talk about the device and the experiment, after having given a biscuit to Yukiko the conversation really starts (about work), as the dog move the owner follows her, down on his knees on the carpet.
Daniel: “It’s the first time I use a hairy phone!”
Daniel: “That is a really ‘mobile’ phone…”
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB3Hq40aYro%5D
The sound from the speaker makes a loop with the microphone
Temporary solution, using an iPhone (which has an algorithm for echo cancelling)
Paper and tape prototype, very light collar holding a (heavy) iPhone
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