TechTakes

‘I’m not a cat’ https://youtu.be/lGOofzZOyl8

Yeah, I've looked into it a little, and I know there are technologies for achieving that, but then again we've all seen videos of filters failing, yeah?

It'd either have to be so reliable I could depend on it not getting confused and messing up even once even over many years or have some failsafe that made it just look like there was lag or something rather than showing my real face. (But also it couldn't glitch if I stepped out of frame. Like, it'd suck if it decided the lamp behind me was my face or whatever. And probably it couldn't restrict what I could do. Like, I wouldn't want to have to be careful about the angle at which I turned my head or anything.)

And it would have to be sufficiently plug-and-play that it wouldn't take me a year of tweaking, coding, and testing to get right before deploying it for real.

So, I dunno. I haven't experimented with anything like overlay techniques directly, but it still seems implausible to me that anything fulfills all of those requirements.

I suppose I'd also settle for "it glitches sometimes, but not in ways that show how uncombed my hair is and how rumpled my shirt is, but also everyone does it and everyone knows that everyone does it, so it doesn't reflect poorly on you if they discover your secret." But I think we're also a long way off from that.

And to be fair, I'm probably overthinking it to an extent and it probably wouldn't actually reflect poorly on me if I did it. (They might be impressed. Who knows.) But still.