Razer’s always good for a couple of neat concepts at every CES, though they don’t necessarily work well as eventual products. The first one is Project Ava, a hologram-in-a-tube avatar that works with AI software, essentially giving your chatbot a face (and body, too). The hardware’s remarkably similar to a shipping product, Lepro Ami.
On one hand, it’s definitely cool-looking (if you can get past the mental cringe visual of clones in tanks), and the fact that it’s holographic. On the other hand, I find things that move (or flicker) in my peripheral vision to be distracting. I would also just prefer my AI respond in bullet points. As I have been frequently told, however, I am not typical.
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