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Coming to a headset near you, a chance to walk among ‘ghosts’
Soon you could be walking in a street in London next to your best friend, who at the same time is walking with you in Sydney, Australia
5 April 2021 • 4:00pm
Call it holoportation. Call it telepresence. Call it the Zoom of tomorrow or the Star Wars Jedi council room of today, but one man who has experienced it insists that beaming digital versions of ourselves around the world is now very real and very thrilling.
“The first time I saw a realistic avatar beamed into my physical space,” says Prof Jeremy Bailenson, “and his feet were on the floor and his eyes followed my gaze as I walked around the room, my jaw dropped. I said: ‘This is it’.”
Four reasons why Zoom is so exhausting and what you can do about it
During the pandemic, the phrase “Zoom fatigue” became part of our vocabulary.
(Illustration by Steve Breen / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Feb. 25, 2021 12:34 PM PT
One week into stay-at-home orders last year, Jeremy Bailenson was talking to a BBC reporter and had an epiphany.
“Why are we Zooming? There’s no need for us to be on Zoom,” he thought. A phone call would have sufficed.
This kernel of realization became an op-ed article that Bailenson wrote in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Zoom Meetings Can Exhaust Us.”