Taptic Toys Lets You Have A Virtual Presence
Taptic Toys, Inc. has been showing off its virtual presence device at E3. If you aren’t familiar with this sort of device, it will probably help you to watch this clip from Big Bang Theory.
Sheldon decided that he would be safer if he used a computer to experience the world, but this device can be used for employees who live in different cities from their offices. Instead of merely telecommuting and video conferencing, they can wander your office. Here is Taptic Toys describing their product, which uses an iPad to control the device.
This device isn’t available yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see things like this in the near future. In fact, Mozilla uses something similar for their employees. Check out this video from Mike Verdi:
- Robot Driving Lessons | Michael Verdi: Wow. I just walked into the office and found robot @beltzner teaching robot @madhava how to drive.
Via: Taptic Toys iPad telepresence robot roams the WWDC keynote line