Thanks for baking OP! I like the new subject, BTW. Cheers. :^)

HoloAnon, I found something which is basically what I mentioned earlier which is a sex toy unit and a VR headset >>43217 https://incels.is/threads/has-anyone-tried-vr-porn-with-the-handy.828786/ https://youtu.be/WzA21cyyXqY https://youtube.com/shorts/SDXM3qT0Epc

>>43582 Oh cool, I didn't realize there had already been some attempts at this. This is pretty limited compared to what I want to do with the marionette, though. But I'm still not sure how to address the complaints of the people who demand physical contact from their waifu.

>>43585 Maybe a blank body pillow combined with VR?

>>43585 I don't mean to derail from virtual waifus, but your mention of a marionette reminded me of the Speecy's product concept for robotic anime figures. It is a ball-jointed doll that uses cables running from the waifu's joints to motors in the base to move the limbs around. Personally I have been tempted to try such an idea, maybe if my plans for SPUD's walking legs don't turn out. I admit I had to use chatgpt to help me dig it up because normal search engines were either directing me to buy anime figures or HATSUKI . >physical contact At a certain point, animating a physical robot in a similar manner to a video game character is just smart programming, especially if it is a waifu on a stick like a Speecy robit. In fact it, looks like Speecy used Miku Miku Dance! Seems like it was too niche of a market at too high a price to be viable. But with a little optimization I could imagine a human-sized Speecy waifu zipping around (with a base with a smaller proportion in comparison to the waifu, of course) Also here's some sauce so I don't forget again :D https://speecys.com/?p=984 https://www.j1studios.com/check-out-the-worlds-first-full-motion-figure/

>>43589 Had to upload the mmd control of the ball-jointed doll in a separate post cuz alogs was being weird about it.

>>43589 >Discard my original idea of a marionette mounted on an assembly near the bed >Instead of that, build a waifu base that fits under or inside the bed >>43586 >The waifu is now a bed accessory Might work from a business perspective. Anything more sophisticated than a basic waifu pillow is going to cost a good deal, so packaging it into another major purchase like a bed may improve the economic viability of robowaifus. >Incels.is users on reading this post: "Aren't real women just expensive bed accessories?"

>>43589 >>43590 Neat! I don't seem to recall these specific examples being posted on the board before? (Though Speecy in general has.) Thanks! >At a certain point, animating a physical robot in a similar manner to a video game character is just smart programming This.

>>43611 >This. Yes, and this is the part I lost the motivation to do because I thought there would be hardly any audience for holowaifus. I did have my marionette thing, but I thought that was too far off to get people excited about the project despite being more achievable than a traditional robowaifu, because I originally thought it would be a control frame mounted near the bed that most people wouldn't bother to install, limiting its use to brothels. But then you guys showed me this Speccy thing and I got the idea to build the waifu's control frame into the bed like what Speccy is doing here. And now it starts looking not only more technically achievable, but also more economically feasible to produce something that can give actual physical companionship. Maybe instead of what I was looking at coding before, where a preset animation library loads animations contextually through a search function, I should instead try a motion capture sync mode where the holowaifu will sync her animations to a physical device, since I've been looking at overlaying her onto a love doll anyway. This could be done by putting a set of tracking markers on the device in a certain configuration. In this case you'd have not just a single large QR code on the doll's chest to point it out to the visor, but multiple markers on her chest, head, and appendages, each of which correspond to that point on the holowaifu. Only when the visor registers all markers does the overlay activate, to prevent the waifu from being overlaid onto a toaster by mistake. Not that you can't still use a tracking marker to cause the waifu to appear next to your toaster, but she'll only do default animations if you do that. Would this be a better approach than an animation library? I don't really know any more about how to animate a character on the fly than about how to construct a sorting algorithm for preset animations, outside of AI video animation.

>>43624 Interesting. I recommend you investigate Pose Estimation using OpenCV . Good luck, HoloAnon. --- Since my own Holowaifu research is on hold now, I'll probably instead work on a robowaifu (digital) skellington system soon. If it goes off well, then it should be applicable to many waifu animation scenarios here across the board. Cheers.

>>43629 >I'll probably instead work on a robowaifu (digital) skellington system soon. Are there any open-source robowaifu skeletons or skeleton software already out there? If not, that seems like a critical piece to get in place. I'm going to talk to DeepSeek some more about how best to proceed with this. If the skellington project works, then it might be worth going back to the AR holowaifu tracking marker and trying to get it to work. For now it's enough that you have that portion of the project in a turnkey state. You've already done a lot to help this idea out, and I can't ask much more because you have other obligations too. I'll try to forge ahead with this as much as I can by myself using AI assistance and whatever help happens to drop into the thread. But on the matter of choosing between the animation library search and the QR-code-based AR motion capture, I'm leaning towards the latter because it's able to be synced to a physical doll and the animation library isn't, and the incels.is poll showed an overwhelming preference for a physical doll.

>>43631 >Are there any open-source robowaifu skeletons or skeleton software already out there? Oh sure. Probably many of them (though I myself haven't investigated this thoroughly). Blender is probably the most famous/well-known. Redot surely has this too. Basically any DCC package (cf. >>415 ) that supports character animations would need such a facility. OTOH, apart from the meticulous process of teasing out the integrated skellington support, who would want to include Blender within our robowaifu's runtime systems? Madness. Same for basically any other major system's libraries (YMMV). We need something simple, lightweight, and fast-as-lightning. Given the safety-critical nature of such a system literally driving the motions of human-environment-adjacent humanoid robots...it also needs to be reliable & secure. Given that I've already started the process of going down this path to meet all these needs simultaneously (cf. >>14409, et al), it just makes sense to roll our own. "NIHS" is a concern that IMO is mostly-irrelevant for our ultimate contexts here on /robowaifu/ (cf. >>10000 ). Daily reminder that none of this has ever been done before. Our closest corollary industries are aerospace & automotive, and no one from these industries is passing out such IP for free AFAICT. * >tl;dr Using general, bloated, (usually) controlled-by-(((corporations))), "may change or die tomorrow at the drop-of-a-hat" frameworks for writing a webapp? Sure. Using them for writing human-lives-are-now-hanging-in-the-balance-systems-software? Lol, nope. :D <---> Here's the library I'm considering studying for lifting simple & fast functionality out of, then integrating that within our RW Foundations framework: https://gitlab.com/eidheim/Skeletal-Animation-Library I know this developer and have been using one of the programs he helped create (juCi++) for about a decade now. He values the same things that make C++ suitable for us here, and uses SFML for visualizations (which I'm also currently leaning towards). It's also MIT licensed, which means we can use it here with no restrictions. I hope all that makes sense, Anon(s). AMA if not. Cheers. --- * One notable exception to this is the C++ language's creator Bjarne Stroustrup and the coding standards he personally collaborated on crafting; for (what became) the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. https://www.stroustrup.com/JSF-AV-rules.pdf There are also premium paid-for coding standards for automotive available. Finally, the C++ Core Guidelines is a well-known & extensive resource for developers writing mission/safety -critical, reliable systems code: https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines

Some holowaifu news that should go in here: https://www.razer.com/concepts/project-ava Razer is building an AI waifu similar to Gatebox. It's expected to release in the second half of 2026. What are you guys' thoughts on this? It's nice for the US to finally get its own version of Gatebox on some level, but a lot of people are creeped out by this because they're wary that the AI is going to spy on them, which of course it will because anything you buy from a big company like Razer is guaranteed to be loaded with corpo spyware shit.

>>43823 Thanks, HoloAnon. Yeah, we'd seen that. It will be interesting to see if they go the exact same pathway Gatebox AI has in licensing character IPs. >What are you guys' thoughts on this? The simple reality is that most ppl don't care fundamentally about their privacy & security. Even if they give lip service to the ideals, in the end they'll stay complacent until push-turns-to-shove. The kikes know this ofc. --- OTOH, the idea and the tech are basically straightforward today. If we here on /robowaifu/ or other cadres chose to produce a provably-secure, privacy-respective Holowaifu device like this -- and promoted it properly -- then I think the Anons that matter would want to use that one instead. I may be wrong in the end, but that's my take on the matter. >tl;dr I personally won't be seeking to get one of these things.

>>43824 How would you build an open-source version of this, and how do you prove that it's secure?

>>43825 Well, the second question is simple: don't provide any facility for direct connection to a network. Whatsoever. As to the first one, the previous thread discussed this topic in some depth. I'll make some time to review the current SOA and try to make a concise summary for us. Soon-ish. --- In the meantime, why not throw some ideas of your own on this topic out there Anon?

>>43826 I don't know, build a shower-sized version and somehow waterproof it through elf magic so I can have the illusion of showering with a holographic girl? I'm pretty brain-fried at the moment, but I'll try to come up with something.

>>43828 >those headpats tho HNNG! :D

>>43824 Unfortunately, Chobitsu is completely right. >>43825 Probably a pepper's ghost with a local AI and animation bank. >>43828 >>43833 Very cute! I can't wait for a fully-capable desktop pet!

>>43836 desktop pet but you're the pet she's gonna be an incredibly context aware accountability partner who forces me to be productive because i'm adhd as fuck i need something to externalize executive function that isn't another person, a rigid schedule, or a job instead it will be my robot daughter with system-level permissions and web browser integration

>>43838 i will program her to force me to draw everyday she will have the ability to exert the free will that i lack for myself because my brain is stupidly programmed to be lazy npc fuck that follows path of least resistance she will open krita and she stare at me dead in the eyes and go "draw" she will actually track the time i spend physically drawing based on mouse + key activity if i stop drawing/go afk the timer will stop if i close the app she will open it again if i switch windows she will switch windows back to krita if i close her i will feel sad because she is my daughter this is foolproof solution >anon is idle >AND it's been two days since anon has drawn >AND they got at most 9 hours of sleep based on hardware inactivity >AND it's roughly the time anon usually has energy for creative work, based on when the times they've done krita sessions on their own >"hey anon, draw for 30 minutes?" >she auto-launches krita >"your choice" >either anon actually draws >or anon will pan the canvas for 15 minutes >or close krita >or close her >or leave the computer >or something else that falls into an outcome category >she saves the interaction for future reference very doable tbqh

>>43838 >>43839 Excellent goals, panpromdev! Greatly looking forward to seeing your results with your dear robot daughter. Cheers, Anon. :)

>>43842 with this project i've been toying around with the concept of an "antimaid" that is pro-autonomy rather than pro-automation. name-wise, it's sort of like "antivirus." basically it's an assistant that opposes learned helplessness. it makes users better at managing tasks in ways that don't make users functionally dependent on it to accomplish these tasks. without it, users are still fully capable of doing what it helped the users with, but may do it less consistently without the structure it provided. many people already have structures like these in the form of jobs that must be physically commuted to. but people who are working remotely/self-employed/unemployed and/or neurodivergent may not benefit as much from existing structures. antimaids reduce the activation energy needed for you to do things yourself rather than doing the things for you, and they gently push away distractions in moments where your awareness is weaker. instead of "let the machine do it for you," it's "let the machine make it easier for you to start doing what you need to do then keep doing it when you can't will yourself to do it." an antimaid will take out the raw ingredients, put them on the counter, and stand in one of pathways that lead out from the kitchen until you've cooked a meal for yourself with those ingredients.

>>43844 if i ever get a domestic synthetic companion, i'd want her to follow antimaid principles so she feels like she isn't just a replacement for my existence. at some point, after certain technological developments happen, her existence would functionally deprecates mine in some ways, and it'd result in this feeling where she's just waiting for me to reach the end of my lifespan as i gradually become more helpless and untrusting of myself, since i keep outsourcing my work. she should help me, the human, be more like her, the machine, and she should refuse to do anything that i can do myself with the right help and support. it'd help preserve a sense of purpose in my own life that doesn't have to be tied to any machine.

>>43838 >>43839 >>43844 >>43845 I really like this idea and approach. It'll give some genuine usecases for Desktop pets, and avoid AI slopbrain. >antimaid Ironically, I think it would be something that would work well with my maid robot.

>>43844 >antimaids reduce the activation energy needed for you to do things yourself rather than doing the things for you, and they gently push away distractions in moments where your awareness is weaker. In "Chi Finds" (ep. 5 of Chobits), Hideki utilizes Chii's abilities in a similar such manner insofar as she's there to encourage her Master on through his difficult studies. A cheerleader, if you will. :) >"Hideki, Fighto!!" https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#1384

>>43836 Yeah its a sad commentary on many of the Anons during Current Year, too. I don't expect anything different of normalcattle, but too often even Anons are guilty of such complacency. >>43847 >Ironically, I think it would be something that would work well with my maid robot. DOOEET! :D

Here's an interesting video I found about how in Star Trek, robots and holograms are treated differently in terms of personhood. https://youtu.be/XLcwSoUCdfI While the video talks about personhood in terms of legal and human rights terms (so there's some virtue signaling), I connect it to how people would view Robot Waifus vs Virtual Waifus If you think about it, we are trying to create a replacement of a person socially, or at least enough to provide effective long-term companionship. And while a physical humanoid entity is easy to view as at least an entity, it's harder to do so for a Virtual Waifu. And in Star Trek, the virtual characters have the benefit of being tangible and fully 3D, things that are currently far beyond us. However, in Star Trek, specifically Star Trek Voyager, there is the "mobile emitter". In the lore of Voyager, the doctor is confined to the sickbay (and the VR "Holodeck"), but when he gets a mobile emitter that he can wear, he's able to basically go anywhere, just like a person. I think for virtual waifus, we can have a simple robot where a Gatebox type device is mounted on. Another option is to have an easily carriable device where the virtual waifu is located in.

>>43967 POTD These are some great ideas, GreerTech. Let's mull them over together. Cheers.

>>43967 Some of my favorite Voyager episodes focused on the Doctor, especially the episode where he turns into the Emergency Command Hologram and fights off some miscreants. And there were other episodes that had a holographic character go off the rails, like Moriarty on TNG. But I'd think a hologram would have more rights than a robot because holograms have less potential for damage, being limited to cyberattacks.

>>44019 Lol. >But I'd think Whites would have more rights than niggers, because Whites have less potential for damage, being limited to just being White.* FTFY, Anon. :DD >tl;dr I'm not sure you understand yet the minds of libsh*tes, nor of the enemies of all mankind, fren HoloAnon.

>>44019 BTW, I apologize for not yet having created a Gatebox.AI -alike 'simple' plan yet. You can presume to have won that 'argument' by this point, HoloAnon. :) The difficulty for now lies in getting the transparent LCD display w/ no backlight/reflective layers manufactured easily. Otherwise, it's basically just a computer screen sandwiched in a 'coffee pot', illuminated by a bright LED strip from below; as far as the display portion of the tech is concerned. * >tl;dr A general 'Pepper's Ghost' approach is probably the best for now, as several Anons have mentioned. Search it up, I'm sure you can stumble across several DIY examples of this. Again, my apologies Anon. --- * Bonus points if you can tune the LCD crystals to luminesce properly, and tune the LEDs to radiate strongly in the near ultraviolet ala 'moving, groovy 60s posters' of holowaifus...we could name it Blacklightbox.AI!! :D

>>44019 In the discussion of rights, I don't think it'll be a matter of danger, but rather which feels "like a real boy" This is similar to Rule 5 of my "Rules for Robowaifuists" >>43646 5. "Humanization" Most young people didn't give a shit about horse racing until the release of Umamusume/Umamusume Global. Vocaloid wouldn't be nearly as popular if it was a featureless software called something like "Synth Voice Modulator". Anthropomorphizing is very powerful. In Star Trek Voyager, Captain "Total Tuvix Death" Janeway would be less inclined to give rights to The Doctor if he was just an LCARS terminal. Even his barebones personality was enough to make him feel somewhat real. >>44021 Yeah, I think a pepper's ghost would be better and easier, at least for now. We could even have projector integration.

>>44024 Now that's a Starfleet uniform I can get behind...throw in some catears and a tail and I'm sold! :D >We could even have projector integration. Yeah, that's a good idea. Thanks, Anon. :)

>>44021 I posted in the last thread about buying a screen to try the Pepper's Ghost trick, but the screen I bought ended up being pretty shitty so I never got around to it (weird Type-A connector and sketchy driver to get it to work. Definitely going to make sure I get a displayport from the next one). I was looking at pivoting to something like this instead: https://makerworld.com/en/models/477488-desktop-holographic-chamber It seems from the assembly manual that he peels the backing off an IPS screen to get a transparency effect. I haven't bought a screen to try it on yet, but it might be another avenue.

>>44033 POTD Thanks for the update, Anon. >Definitely going to make sure I get a displayport from the next one Yeah, probably a safer bet! :) >It seems from the assembly manual that he peels the backing off an IPS screen to get a transparency effect. Well, that's the biggest issue to making our own Gatebox.ai clones; if you can simply '[peel] the backing off' then you're halfway there! BTW, can you post the manuals? It seems that site gatekeeps behind an account wall. Regardless, >I haven't bought a screen to try it on yet, but it might be another avenue. please keep us here up to date with your progress, Anon! Cheers. :)

>>44021 >You can presume to have won that 'argument' by this point, HoloAnon. Hooray, my very own gold medal in Olympic waifu debating! I didn't even realize I entered that. But I'd like to thank the Academy. >>44024 >Emergency Medical Waifu "Please state the nature of the sexual emergency." "There are 20 immigrants from the Delta Quadrant behind that door trying to culturally enrich the ship." "I'm a waifu, not a doorstop."

>>44036 POTD LMAO.

>>44034 >BTW, can you post the manuals? It seems that site gatekeeps behind an account wall. Mirrored here

>>44039 Thanks very kindly, Anon! :)

>>44119 (crosslinked from another thread) Wait, you can use 4-wheel car bases for robot joint actuation? Awesome if true. Glad you managed to find a use for those. I'd still like to do some sort of holowaifu, but I've been rethinking the design concepts we came up with after seeing the incel poll that said very few of them would be interested in a purely AI companion. Unfortunately I've been busy with other things recently, but I haven't forgotten about this place.

>>44131 Hello HoloAnon, good to see you. >Wait, you can use 4-wheel car bases for robot joint actuation? Awesome if true. Heh, possibly. But what I mean is, I'm trying them as "feet" instead. Kinda like OG skates. The base of her shin should flare out into a wide foot kinda like the character Roll in Mega Man. Makes sense, Anon?

>>44132 Might be cool. You don't see that many skating robots, but after watching GITS: SAC 2045 and seeing the American Empire power suits at the end, I kind of wondered how a skating robot would stack up against a walking bot in terms of how difficult it is to build. I know GreerTech has his roomba base for Galatea, but roller skates are a different beast.

>>44133 >but roller skates are a different beast. Indeed. Mind you, these little cars are relatively flimsy. However A) This is just a prototype B) I want to prioritize low-mass robowaifus in the first place, so designing around that constraint is actually beneficial at this stage C) If successful, then the plan is to redesign around rugged pro-skater gear for strength and durability

>>44134 Skating does have the benefit of being more energy-efficient than walking, and battery power is at a premium with robowaifus. But how do you make a robot do skating movements? It seems difficult on the surface, but I suspect it could actually turn out to be less troublesome than walking. People thought automation was going to take manual labor jobs like janitors first, but it turns out that AI is coming for office jobs instead, because things that are easy for a human to do aren't necessarily easy for a robot. So maybe some things that are hard for humans are easier for robots.

>>44135 Good points. >but I suspect it could actually turn out to be less troublesome than walking As do I. As a skater myself, I can certainly say that the motions involved are simpler than, say, running. Much easier on the joints as well. Now I still mean to make regular bipedal ambulation a capability (as with going up stairs), but anywhere 'skating' makes sense then that'd likely be the default movement.

>>44136 I used to have inline skates as a kid, but I never really made a big thing out of it. But this reminds me of Fi, the holowaifu from Zelda: Skyward Sword, and how she figure skates in some of the cutscenes. Holowaifus are rare enough as it is compared to robowaifus without having them skate too. I also previously asked Mechnomancer about tendon-actuated spider walkers. Or maybe I just thought I did, I don't remember. But I wondered if that would be easier than embedding motors in the leg joints.

>>44135 >>44136 If you motorize the skates, it can definitely be a good compromise for walking, while still being able to go up stairs and having active balancing.

>>44138 Is it better to motorize the skates or to have their wheels rotate freely and be powered by the rest of the bot's movements, like a human wearing skates?

>>44139 Moved to more on-topic thread >>44140

>>44141 Yeah, this is a little off-topic for this thread. The tracking marker car was probably unnecessary for the first stage of this anyway; just put the tracking markers on walls and screens. We talked about fairy waifus that fly; it wouldn't be too tough to make a holowaifu that uses an alternative form of locomotion like skating or flying, rather than walking. But this still doesn't solve my core problem of how to actually get people to like the idea of a holowaifu.

>>44141 Heh, thanks GreerTech. Good move.

>>44143 >But this still doesn't solve my core problem of how to actually get people to like the idea of a holowaifu. Honestly if you can manage it, then I'd encourage you to just let go of your considerations about that HoloAnon. Unless you are strongly-driven to focus on business startups, then what matters it? Just do what you yourself want, pretty much. Do a good job at that, and then the old adage will come into play here: >"If you build it, they will come."

MyRobot (game from 4th pic in OP) just released today. Buggy, but kind of fun. It's got potential. I've only played around two hours so far. You need to install a patch to run self-hosted models, once I'm done with the story I'll play around with it. You can add to the system prompt and add custom torsos/heads, so with some customization time you could have some adventures with your waifu. If it had SillyTavern integration so you could use memory books, that would be incredible. Still, I'm looking forward to playing more and trying out modding it. Needs a Chi head. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3597510/MyRobot/

>>44170 Sounds fun. I hope you can find all the mods you're looking for Anon. Please keep us here up to date with your progress. Cheers. :)

Something omoshiroi I stumbled across (weebword has the best connotation for my feelings towards it). A Vtuber, but real instead of in fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYubdZybX8k

>>44176 Very cute! Pepako is always fun. :D This is one of the more complex ones I've seen, this Anon has some real talent. Cheers, Mechnomancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbOV166KDo I just remembered this news story and decided it should be posted here. This is a hospital that uses a holographic studio for doctor's visits. I'm not sure what the benefit of this is versus just doing it with a webcam, but something like this might be useful for holowaifu endeavors. The price is pretty steep right now though.

>>44277 That's kinda neat, HoloAnon. I wish they had done a more-technical breakdown on the tech involved, rather than the 'news' team just running an advert for it (no doubt, (((by direction))) given the brown invaders represented here). Did this really look """3D""" for example? I certainly couldn't tell. Maybe they are using some of the tricks mentioned ITT (Pepper's Ghost, &tc) and it simply isn't coming across in the footage here? Regardless, please keep us here up to date on this tech if you run across more. Cheers. >ps. PLEASE DON'T GET SICK ANYWHERE NEAR THIS WHOLE REGION, ANONS! :D

>>44285 Pretty sure they're using Pepper's Ghost for this, but the setup here seems like it could admit more than just that. But medical imaging tech is a good basis for holowaifus, so I'll be keeping an eye on that. >Regardless, please keep us here up to date on this tech if you run across more. Well I found this too; both examples came up while I was looking for videos of the EMH from Voyager. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-rAETZTPBA This is a little closer to what we've been talking about with the visor. >brown invaders I don't trust them to code or build a plane, but Indians are weirdly good at medicine, at least by brown standards (which isn't to say we should let 50 million of them in). And Arabs/Persians are pretty good at building drones and rockets to BTFO Israel, although Arabs are probably whiter than the average American at this point.

>>44287 >but Indians are weirdly good at medicine, LOL. No they're not. They're just as inept in that area on average as typical for them in any other. >t. had step-mother brought to the edge of death by a bumbling pooshit surgeon. only the fact the family had her rushed to Mayo immediately afterwards for an additional, emergency, surgery saved her.

>>44289 That's why I said by brown standards, lel. Anybody who has any sense would prefer a white or Asian doctor for critical tasks. Indian doctors are roughly as good as ChatGPT, maybe fine for minor problems or routine checkups, but if you have a serious problem they're not reliable, and since we have AI now there's almost never a reason to use them instead of DIYing it with AI. The fact that medical errors are now the second or third leading cause of death in the US is in large part attributable to the browning of medicine.

I had a silly idea about how to interact with a holowaifu: use a 90s-style trackball mouse. It's somewhat of a modification of the concept I was talking about earlier of using a ballbot to denote her real-world position, but with technology that's already widely available. Using AR-based hand movement controls can be janky because the image recognition won't always interpret your movements correctly, but a trackball is much less likely to encounter this problem. Rotating her would feel intuitive compared to other control methods. You could also make slow and deliberate motions on the trackball to give her headpats. Or maybe this is kind of dumb and I just miss the 90s.

>>44332 That sounds interesting, HoloAnon. BTW, have you ever used a so-called '3D Mouse' (AKA an 'Air Mouse', b/c you hold it up in the air). I wonder what it would be like interacting with your holowaifu with one of those? >Or maybe this is kind of dumb and I just miss the 90s. LOL. :D

>>44334 >Air Mouse Never even heard of that, what's it like?

>>44334 >Air Mouse

>>44339 >>44342 Heh. Yep that's basically how you use them. Sitting on a couch without using a mousepad to control your 'puter displayed on a projection screen on the opposite wall is the basic use case. Works just like a normal mouse w/o the nuisance of dealing with needing a stable, flat surface to track around on.

>>44354 Huh, I remember back in 2015 or so I tried using a kinect for a mouse: it would track your hand and the # of fingers you held up would be a mouse click. Was pretty janky. Could probably do similar nowadays with mediapipe/python etc with a standard webcam. https://google-ai-edge.github.io/mediapipe-samples-web/#/vision/hand_landmarker

>>44354 I've played video games on a projector a few times, it was neat. You could use an AR visor with a tracking marker on the floor near the wall you're projecting onto to put your holowaifu into a simulated environment. Then if you got a large screen and put it diagonally near the wall you'd have a Pepper's Ghost setup for the environment, and it would look kind of like a holodeck.

>>44356 >>44361 The one I've used looks and feels just like a smol mouse, but here's a more recent design sampling: https://www.amazon.com/iMouse-P30-Air-Mouse-Plus/dp/B09WZGWT88 https://www.amazon.com/Welspo-Wireless-Handheld-Trackball-Pointer/dp/B0BJZQX6CM https://www.amazon.com/Adesso-iMouse-P40-Wireless-Presenter/dp/B0CTKY86K9