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Originally Posted by Pandion
Well I like it, so there  |
When I first saw the interior mod Tomi was working on I was stunned.
But I quickly thought, "aside from a "virtual tour" now and again, what USE is it?"
The only answer is "no use at all."
Immersion? Again, and empty boat is not immersive, and a boat populated by avatars is only as immersive as the
least immersive interaction you have with them.
It's an impossible bar for the devs, IMO.
We deal with real human beings daily. We evolved to read faces, subtle body language, and other indicators of human emotion. As a result, even tiny flaws in such virtual interactions jar us far more than technical stuff since we do this unconsciously every waking moment we are with other RL people.
Keeping the 3d person avatars in a constrained setting of accepting orders, while adding just minor variations in the statements, tone, etc, is a far more successful strategy, IMO.