From: rick_s on
Oh, you want to be a slider like your AI assistant.

So then you have your room, its a holographic film of a street, you hand
signal your assistant, his chest shows a symbol, right place, you snap
your fingers, the room slides and you don't move.

Than Einstein for that one.

Now the scene is a different part of the world. And you didn't even muss
your hair.

If you want realism, and things you can pick up, then you need to do the
usual mechanical magic of walls that switch or things that physically
move. That's big production type stuff but for your own beaming around
the world, your asssistant can handle the details all you have to do is
tell it where you want to go.

Its still just a visual experience but it could be a very convincing
experience.

Especially when someone walks out of a scene and is a real person who
walked out from behind scene on cue. Especially when almost always they
are just holograms.

Or if you want your AI to sing and dance around your TV and use the TV
as his chalkboard and be able to show movies and clips using it, while
moves around and points and play acts, and signs and makes himself
useful. Keep in mind he is only like 16 to 24 inches tall.
(Larger if the computers can manage it)

Then people will find ways to beam him across the room through the LAN.
From one machine to another and soon he will be beaming all over the
damn house. But being helpful everywhere he goes.

Inputting the information is always the most tedious part but what if,
you scanned every food item you brought into your house with the scanner
on the fridge, and your AI assistant looked that information up on the
net so he knew what it contained, he could suggest what to have for
dinner based on nutritional diets provided by a plug in from some expert
on diets.