Humanoid robots could soon allow us to stream our consciousness anywhere in the world, acting as surrogate bodies that enable people to ‘instantly be in multiple places at once.’
This is the goal of the Avatar XPrize, an ANA-sponsored concept for a $22 million contest just selected at the XPrize Visioneers 2016 Summit as ‘ready to launch.’
Backed by Japan’s largest airline, ANA, the Avatar XPrize will be a globally televised competition for the development of real avatars.
Teams will be given three years to create a system that can control an avatar in one basic task.
Then in 2022, finalists will move on to the Annual Avatar Games to compete across five categories: caretaker, public speaker, disaster relief, tennis, and musician.
These tasks will include pushing a wheelchair through a course, cooking an omelette, and even providing basic healthcare to a wounded person.
(Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Thursday October 13 2016, @05:29AM
Nope, perfectly reasonable if you follow the twisted logic.
The overgrown smurfs in Avatar had multi-purpose genitals which they mated with, used to control their mounts, and FSM knows what else they did with it off camera.
Japan loves its prehensile tentacle porn.
Next will come the announcement that ANA stewardess uniforms will be changed to schoolgirl uniforms.
I'm sure you can guess where this is going.
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.