I once worked for a company that created a large AR installation for an event. People could see themselves up on a big screen, and were able to "collect" digital items by waving their hands as they floated by. The only thing is, the company wasn't able to get the hit detection to work reliably, so they instead opted for a guy sitting at a computer in a room off to the side, where he would click on a screen to mimic realtime interaction.
Not quite related to the article's content, but the title reminded me of the time I cancelled my internet subscription with Comcast. The poor representative on the other end of the call decided that impersonating artificial speech as she read through her scripts was the best way to get through her day.
The headline reminded me of mechanical turks: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk</a>
Has this guy ever tried playing an online game over 5G, lol?l<p>Ping over cell networks is not favorable to real time things like this. How do you safely maneuver a vehicle with a 50ms delay?
Discussed at the time:<p><i>The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the remote workforce</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884471" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20884471</a> - Sept 2019 (98 comments)
<a href="https://archive.today/8E3lM" rel="nofollow">https://archive.today/8E3lM</a><p>p.s. what does "prostoalex" mean? Is it short for <i>prostate-alex</i>, or something else?