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In manysituations where videoconferencing is desirable, we are not going to have enough screen real estate to render people full-size
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Small, jittery, low-contrast video of people does not give you what you want from teleconferencing
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Gracefully rendered expressions on a cartoon face feel "real"
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It should be possible to create a specialized Cartoon Face Animation data format that is VERY data compact
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With the processing power of an iPhone, you could take live video of faces and convert it into Cartoon Face Animation language on the fly
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So you could have cartoon face teleconferencing on your phone that is low bandwidth but more satisfying than raw video with big pipes
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I've been talking about this product idea for at least a decade, originally wanting it on the desktop
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It's actually an interesting object lesson in what kinds of products the "tech industry" knows how to bring to market
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A simple product that depends on solving a small constellation of technical problems together is hard to create
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I actually tried building an iphone game based on expression cartoons called "ConvoFu" a couple of years back. Abandoned halfway
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Oh yeah. Once you can author the parameters of your cartoon self, as that demo shows you can "perform" looking however you want.

