{"id":4826,"date":"2017-08-01T14:19:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4826"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:19:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:19:48","slug":"facebook-discovers-telepresence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/facebook-discovers-telepresence\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook discovers telepresence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  Facebook is testing a feature that would allow the camera to automatically scan for people in its range and lock onto them, one of the people said. For example, the camera could zoom onto a painting that a child brought home from school to show to a parent away on a business trip. Facebook has also been developing a 360 degree camera for the device, but people familiar with the matter say it\u2019s unlikely to be ready in time for the initial launch.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-01\/facebook-is-said-to-work-on-video-chat-device-in-hardware-push\">Facebook Is Working on a Video Chat Device &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is nothing new in the telepresence space. Cisco and Polycom have similar technologies available. The technology is impressive and useful in conference rooms to tell who is speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing this technology into the home was an obvious step. If (and I say if because anything speculative doesn&#8217;t exist yet) this device exists with the facial tracking software will be useful for chatting at home.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is behind it so people are going to scream about that. And they&#8217;re not wrong. Google and Facebook are advertising companies. They thrive on personal information so they can sell that information to companies who want to sell us stuff. (And doing a poor job from the looks of ads I&#8217;m being served.)<\/p>\n<p>There is a big world of data yet to be exploited and Facebook will do their best to exploit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing a feature that would allow the camera to automatically scan for people in its range and lock onto them, one of the people said. For example, the camera could zoom onto a painting that a child brought home from school to show to a parent away on a business trip. Facebook has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - Facebook discovers telepresence?","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[286],"tags":[30,1177,690],"class_list":["post-4826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-shared","tag-facebook","tag-telepresence","tag-video","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4826\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}