Russell: VR facial tracking will enable realistic virtual meetings within a couple years
Kyle Russell · a16z Podcast | Mapping the Future of Virtual Reality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 24:30
Kyle Russell, a member of the Andreessen Horowitz deal team, discusses how VR hardware advancements will make remote team meetings more effective than phone or video calls.
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“And I think we're only a couple years out from having things where it's tracking the muscles on your face, tracking the movement of your eyes, where your avatars could really reflect what you look like at that time, and you could do things like have an entire meeting where eight different people are in, you know, different locations, but they all feel like they're in the same conference room, and they're looking across the table and matching each other's eye contact, and you can just have meetings that are much more effective than you would have over the phone or over, you know video over IP.”
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