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You can have video calls with ChatGPT, and it’s as uncanny as it sounds

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Since AI has become available to the masses, people have used it for many different kinds of stuff: from writing photoshoot setups for fun to recreating deceased loved ones to ease the grief. If you’re feeling lonely, you can now even have a video call with ChatGPT. Thanks to an app Call Annie, you can now video call “your best AI friend.”

While Annie is a non-existent person, she looks as human and believable as it gets. And after watching a demo, I can say that it’s as impressive as it is uncomfortable to watch her interact.

Nvidia’s streaming software now makes your eyes look at the camera even when they’re not

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If you have a hard time focusing on zoom meetings or paying attention to your audience during live streams, then fear no more! Nvidia is here to save the day with the newest update to the Nvidia Broadcast software. It includes the new Eye Contact feature, which simulates eye contact with the camera when you’re looking away from it. It actually has some real-world applications besides just being distracted during virtual work meetings.

Eye Contact is currently in beta and has been introduced with Nvidia Broadcast 1.4.0. About the effect, Nvidia says, “the eyes retain their natural colour and blinks”. This is to help ensure that the effect is sold to your audience as well as possible. There’s even a disconnect feature that, if you look too far away from the camera, transitions the direction of your eyes smoothly from the simulated eyes to your real eyes, so nobody’s ever the wiser.

No more remote working in your PJs, video calls in the near future could be via hologram

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It’s been the stuff of science fiction for decades. No, not aliens taking over the White House. I’m talking about hologram calls instead of your regular old video meetings. Imagine if you will, a world where you can actually beam a 3D version of yourself into the office of your remote-working boss, Princess Leia-style. And you don’t even need an R2D2 to do it.

The technology to do this is actually already here. This is not the future, this is now. Los Angeles-based company Proto has developed technology that allows you to beam a full-body 4K hologram of yourself anywhere in the world through their Proto Epic portal.

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