/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>16258637
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg

>>16258637
This was demo'd about a year ago right? It's pretty tiny.

>>16258652
>tiny

as in, the physical size of it? I think it looks just the right size from the video. Does it even need to be big?

>>16258637
>>>/a/150925633
>>>/a/150924035
Stop shilling this shit and learn what waifu means, faggot.

So it's just a moe verson of the Amazon Echo? Got one of those as a birthday present a few months ago but it is pretty limited and half the time when I call its name it doesn't respond and I feel like a jackass having to sit there and repeat myself.

>>16258637
Can I customize the little girl inside of it?

>>16260103
It says, "Live with your favorite character" on it, so most likely you can purchase different girls to live in.

>>16258637
Good goyim. Never reproduce.

>>16260005
>half the time when I call its name it doesn't respond and I feel like a jackass having to sit there and repeat myself.
Sounds like most of my interactions with people in my life. Pretty realistic in my opinion.

>>16261075
>reproducing
No thanks /pol/. I don't want to add any more misery into the world than there already is. Not interested in saving muh aryan race, even if I am blond haired and blue eyed. The jews can do what they want as long as I can do what I want, which consists of masturbating mostly. If they ever try to restrict my freedom, I'll tackle that problem when I get to it.

The world has always been controlled by classes of power who brainwash the masses, the jews are just flavor of the millennia. Reproducing is just as much a spook as is obeying your masters. They want more slaves, not less of them.

>>16258637
What can it do that a phone app can't?

>>16258637

Can it be programmed to cheat on you with another AI or even another person?

>>16258637
Depends on whether I can fuck her

>>16261075
Go away, /pol/.

I was interested in buying, but then I found out that the actual product costs 321,840 JPY = 2742.7398 USD + Tax. I <3 the idea, but that is way too much $$$. Just in case u wanna buy here: https://gateboxlab.stores.jp/items/57ea607100d331404d002d77

So... How long until humans are obsolete?

>>16258646
Reminds of Her, even though I haven't seen it. Seems like the same plot, though.

>>16262954
Meant to say it "reminds me of Her"

>>16262909
Until fully operational drones can be mass produced below minimum wage

Depends on how intricate the A.I. behind it is. If it's just Google Home with some MMD model saying ohayo and oyasumi to me (which, to be honest, it probably is, unless it's something like Premiere is right now), you really couldn't sell this to anybody for 3000-ish dollars.

And of course, it depends if they'll make a cooperation with Crypton to bring the Vocaloids to it. Might be worth it if it's tiny Miku pestering me to come home every day from work on my phone.

>>16262986
Same thing came to mind when I saw it. To have Miku welcome you home and sing lullabies when off to bed would be blissful.

>>16262986
This. I'm really worried about the AI. My hope is Amazon JP decides to integrate Alexa into it or something.

>>16258637
It will take them a million years to come out with a shota option, so I'll wait.

>>16262618
Like that's not a good price to have a fully automated house waifu.

Anyone remember Yomecolle?

Anyone actually use it?

>>16261117

>>16262218

https://u.nya.is/kjrwws.mp4

Looks expensive. None of these things mean anything to me until they're affordable to hikis, which will be never.
I'm happy for the salaryman that will get to spend some time with it before he dies in his 50's from a heart attack, however.

No.

>>16258637
No I want a customized.

>>16258637
>>16258646
This is like the saddest shit I've seen in a long time.

No kidding, I physically cringed.

>>16264144
i can feel your literal shaking too

>>16264144
Me too. I'm literally shaking and trying to

update my tumblr. I just can't imagine why

anyone would favour this level of escapism over

a relationship with one of us healthy feminists.

I'm an atheist but I pray for the souls of all the people (or non-humanity identifying individuals) who would sink so low as to find purchasing one of these things a viable path to take.

>>16264246
I don't even have or want a girlfriend but this shit is just depressing.
It's like the guy has no friends or family.
Hell, not even online friends.

>>16264260
one of us

>>16264246
Imagine thinking that someone who spends 3 grand on a smartphone app and a low resolution "hologram" display is somehow superior to your average cuck.

If this shit was an actual AI, sure, 3 grand is a steal for a life partner in a box. Given it's just a fucking collection of audio files, it's the saddest shit ever.

>>16264260
And what's wrong in cheering yourself up with such a virtual assistant?
It's like buying a dakimakura, why should he keep living depressing life if he can chat/cuddle with cute anime girl?

>>16264317
It's one thing to replace human interaction with, say, dating sims and VNs where you get dozens of hours of content and a fun story to follow.

It's quite another to be so desperate for any kind of interaction that you'll spend 3 grand on a soundboard app. By all means, hug your daki as you fall asleep if it makes you feel any better. Don't spend 3 grand on a gimmick that'll make you want to kill yourself in a week when it starts repeating itself.

>>16264335
I don't think it's meant to completely replace human interactions, just like dakimakura and VNs aren't meant to replace them. They just give you that intimate bit you might be missing for various reasons. If someone doesn't have any friends or anything, none of these things will make you happy. But if you have that small group of friends and coworkers you spend time with, it's better to cuddle with your daki or play dating sim or talk with your voice assistant when you come back home instead of just sitting alone. I do that and it's pretty great option. The chat feature just adds immersion and can excite you.

It's gonna be hella disappointing most likely, since after a while it would just start repeating the same shit and the illusion would be broken.

I'll wait until AI is sentient. Before that it's just artificial.

>>16263161
Eren?

>>16258637
I want one so bad, but cannot justify the $3000 to get one.

>>16264144
>>16264260
I can feel the crossboarders

Husbando 2.0 version when?

>>16258637
In all serious it's more like having a virtual pet than a virtual waifu or partner. It's like a tamigachi 2.0

>>16265003
Only if you neglect this then your waifu dies.

>>16264144
>>16264246
Please get out of /jp/ or spend time lurking and assimilating.

>>16258637
>guests come over
>don't mind me I'll just make us some cawfee
>No master nooooooohgklgkgjsk *drowns*

Just don't put the thing in the kitchen

>>16266240
In her own shit?

>>16266377
Who are you quoting?

>>16258698
Hes asian and its from an angle.

That drum there with her avatar is the size of a standard soda bottle.

>>16258646
if it just behaves like an app then it will ultimately be an empty feeling

>>16266475
The future

>>16258637
We only have dec14th through like end of January you order one. They only have 300 units I do want one bad. Cost 3k. I was going to use that to build me a pc and get both vr headsets. I may get this instead.

Lame, bath mode doesn't even let you peep on her.

https://youtu.be/bUQLyhYdQAc

I can relate to the commercial for the gatebox. I almost started tearing up at work during a meeting.

>>16258637
I'd really like to get one. But I'm afraid what family and friends would say. It might not be taboo in Nippon but buying this thing here in the states is grounds for being ostracized. I really don't think its worth the stress.

>>16266693
Just say it's a kawai Amazon Echo.

>>16266629
You'll be able to mod it, mark my words. There are going to be conventions and homebrew communities dedicated to this thing to rival Rasberry pi nerds.

>>16258637
is it botnet? like amazon echo

>>16266797
I sure hope so. 3k is a bit much for waifu without some sort of fuzoku.

>>16258637
If I had like a ton of ca=sh to throw around without worry, maybe.

But like if I just had exactly three grand to spend on anything I wanted there are other things I would do.

>>16266820
Its bleeding edge at the moment. I predict rapid price drops

Not sure if it's because I have a vive, but it fails to impress me. I think an AR waifu would be more effective.

>>16264938
I'll admit I'm a crossboarder from /cgl/, but I've been doing this for maybe half a year or longer already.

>>16264977
This.

>>16264260
Yes, it's clearly a product aimed at the single man who has a day job and an absolute metric ton of disposable income (the type of person who lives in an apartment by himself and frequently buys niche products like figures and perhaps spends tons of money in online games), but not really any personal relationships. People like this still have friends, but they mostly hang around in chat rooms and shit and probably never even heard each other's voices. The guy comes home and has nobody waiting for him but his computer, which isn't such a big deal, but a product like this is interesting in that it puts "someone" else in the apartment that doesn't require a commitment any bigger than keeping the base plugged into the wall.

Why is it such a surprise to you people who say it's cringey and depressing, that people like this exist? I myself am like this and I have about half a dozen friends who live exactly in said conditions and could very easily buy one of these out of curiosity.

It's only foreign and strange to you because you want it to be, you probably already have friends in real life and of course you wouldn't trade them for this, so the product doesn't really do anything for you. If you're like that, then all the more power to you, but you've come to wince at the wrong thing.

>>16266921
Begone, filthy succubus

>>16266962
>but a product like this is interesting in that it puts "someone" else in the apartment that doesn't require a commitment any bigger than keeping the base plugged into the wall.
Except it doesn't, all it does is put one of those shitty Amazon Alexa things in your house, except without half the utility. You'd have more fun asking Alexa or Google some dumb questions than you would with this thing, and it's fucking 30 times more expensive.

If you're lonely, buy a fucking cat, dude. They cost next to nothing, you just leave a window open for them to go out and shit, close your bedroom door during the day so they don't sit on the desk, and put down a bowl of food twice a day. The lifelong cost of a cat is going to be pretty comparable to this, but at least you get a cute ball of fluff to chill out with and stroke.

If you crave human interaction, go out and fucking meet people. Don't close yourself up with some spyware tech because they put a cute girl voice on it with over 10 built-in phrases.

>>16266989
>Except it doesn't, all it does is put one of those shitty Amazon Alexa things in your house, except without half the utility.

The thing isn't even out yet, you don't even know how useful it'll be. All they showed in the trailer was it turning on the lights and the air conditioner.

And seriously mate, why the fuck would they make it *less* useful than Amazon's or Google's offerings? The tech to do these things properly is already out there, you just have to copy it. It's like saying you can put a smart-TV out without Netflix, when no sane company would ever not offer something like that on their product, because that's just the standard nowadays.

>If you're lonely, buy a fucking cat, dude.

Yeah, because a cat or a pet is the one-size-fits-all solution to loneliness. Some people don't like animals, some people think cats and animals in general are unhygienic, and some people just can't be hassled to take care of a pet for what it gives back. Again, all this thing requires for upkeep is for you to plug it into an outlet. You have to buy food for pets, keep litter boxes clean, and take them to the vet occasionally.

>If you crave human interaction, go out and fucking meet people. Don't close yourself up with some spyware tech

I can see you distrust smart-tech. Understandable. Go out and get the pussy you deserve, tiger. Just don't try to rope other people into doing something they're not comfortable doing.

>>16266964
Hisssss, I've come for your semen manling!!! I'm gonna slurp it up along with your soul!

Is there a payment plan for this thing or down payments only?

>>16261096
Laughed, but cried inside.

>>16263311
Good old Futurama

>>16261075
A happy life without being the cuck of some unfaithful woman is a good life my Jewish friend.

>>16263311
Nothing wrong with that.

When will a consumer protection body sue companies for marketing holograms which have no dimensional existence?
A holographic display also experiences no distortion.

>>16261128
Justify a 2.5k pricetag

>>16267157
Neither of you are welcome here. Head back to your boards of origin.

>>16267460
^This.

>>16267157
>jew cuck lol globalist jew rothschild pleb go trump mike pence is mai waifu
/pol/ pls go. You are literally worse than /a/.

>>16267417
Is it really justifiable, though?

I mean, if this had a full Western rollout and I could definitely load my main squeeze as the avatar, I still wouldn't buy it but I might want one.

This just sounds like it would take all my money and leave me with a buggy weeb Amazon Echo.

>>16267503
>>16267460
>>16267157
>>16261075
>>16267122
>>16263311
>>16261117
/jp/, just another mod enforced echo-chamber

>>16267034
99.9999999% of smart tech collects massive amounts of data on anything that is an input device. That's fine if that doesn't bother you but that is the truth. They record everything down to your account information and make a nice log that is updated daily.

>>16267417
New technology targeting a niche market

>>16267819
Yes, which is why I said it's understandable. Most people just won't care. It's a bit of a simulated reality situation where, if corporations really are keeping this enormous amount of data on us and doing whatever the fuck with it like selling it to other companies, it really doesn't actually affect us in any way.

You can be bothered by it or you can live with it. It's understandable to be freaked out, but I wouldn't hold out on purchasing something just because of that. It all depends on how much they want out of me, look at it on a case-by-case basis.

>>16267417

This, >>16267928

>>16267034
>>The thing isn't even out yet, you don't even know how useful it'll be
I have a functioning brain, and I know the current limitations of tech.

>And seriously mate, why the fuck would they make it *less* useful than Amazon's or Google's offerings?
Because they're aiming for a different market. Google and Amazon use computer generated voices so they can effectively parse anything. This uses sound clips recorded from a VA. You're obviously going to be severely limited just by recording time.

>Again, all this thing requires for upkeep is for you to plug it into an outlet. You have to buy food for pets, keep litter boxes clean, and take them to the vet occasionally.
And it costs 3 grand. No cat needs a litter box unless you're enough of a cunt to keep them locked up in the house all day, and the upkeep of "put some food in a bowl twice a day" is less hassle than asking this cunt in a box what the weather is.

>Go out and get the pussy you deserve, tiger.
Fuck off. I'm not a sad sack of shit like you who is so clearly disappointed with his life that he'd spend 3 grand on a soundbox. I don't need a fucking app to feel less lonely.

By all means, when waifubots or androids or AI OSes come out, buy one. I probably will too, because actual companionship that you can switch off when you're bored of it would be worth its weight in gold. But that kind of shit is 50 years away, and is more likely to just nuke humanity than it is to play geimu with you.

>>16268647
>Because they're aiming for a different market. Google and Amazon use computer generated voices so they can effectively parse anything.

That doesn't even matter as you can include functionality from both in the same device. Seriously, do you think it's not going to get supported or updated *at all* with new stuff for 3000 dollars? You can have it have a vocaloid-ish voice bank in there to read you the news if that's so important to you, and you can have the pre-recorded lines, AND it can still be a perfectly functioning smarthub like Echo with the hologram projector on top of it.

>No cat needs a litter box

Again with this cat and price garbage. You didn't even address the idea that perhaps, people who buy this aren't looking for a pet to begin with. How you raise your pets and how you think other people should raise them is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

>Fuck off. I'm not a sad sack of shit like you who is so clearly disappointed with his life that he'd spend 3 grand on a soundbox.

Projecting, much? What makes you think people who will buy this are disappointed with their lives? You seem like you're desperately looking for any reason to justify your disdain for this.

>By all means, when waifubots or androids or AI OSes come out, buy one.

Every tech needs early adopters. That's how companies know to iterate on the technology to attract new customers. If you're not one of them, then don't be, save your money. Be happy!

>>16268720
>Seriously, do you think it's not going to get supported or updated *at all* with new stuff for 3000 dollars?
When the total userbase winds up being maybe 50 dudes, they're going to just can the project.

>You can have it have a vocaloid-ish voice bank in there to read you the news if that's so important to you, and you can have the pre-recorded lines, AND it can still be a perfectly functioning smarthub like Echo with the hologram projector on top of it.
They've shown nothing indicating that this even has Siri-tier tech in it.

Japan is really not at the forefront of this kind of research. This shit is just RoboHon in a new box, limited functionality with the allure of some uguu weebshit plastered on the front.

>people who buy this aren't looking for a pet to begin with.
People who buy this are looking for something to be there when they get home. A pet is a much better substitute than a soundboard.

>What makes you think people who will buy this are disappointed with their lives?
If you were spending 3 grand on a top of the line 4K movie setup, I'd think you were mental, but not disappointed with your life. When you spend the same on the dumbest smarthub on the market, with none of the support for normie apps like spotify, at 30 times the cost because it has a cute little anime girl on it, then I think something went severely wrong with your life if you overcompensate in a manner like this. I hope you live in Japan, because there's literally no way this thing is going to work abroad.

>Every tech needs early adopters. That's how companies know to iterate on the technology to attract new customers.
This kind of thinking is just poisonous. Buy something because it's a good product, not because "in 20 years these guys might have a good idea!", because they won't, AI is probably coming from Google, not a bunch of jokers trying to squeeze obscene amounts of money out of dumb ota scum.

>>16264260
Once I left my family behind, and since three years haven't talked to them, I feel pretty lonely. Now even the captcha says I need to find a basement.

>>16268784
>When the total userbase winds up being maybe 50 dudes, they're going to just can the project.

Pure speculation at this point. Even if the userbase ends up being small, it might not need millions of users to be supported.

>They've shown nothing indicating that this even has Siri-tier tech in it.

So that means it won't have it? Admit already that you have no idea how it's going to be like. Nobody does, they've showed a small trailer and that's it.

It's shipping in December of 2017. That's a full year from now.

>A pet is a much better substitute than a soundboard.

Again, to be certain it'll be a mere "soundboard" at this point in time is delusional. Has it even gone through your thick skull that people who might buy this might already have a pet? Because there's absolutely no reason you have to own one or the other, you can have both. Or you could forego the pet, because what you do with your money is your own damn problem and people shouldn't judge you on how you spend it.

>I hope you live in Japan, because there's literally no way this thing is going to work abroad.

It'll ship to the States, so clearly it'll work here.

And, you know.

You could just talk some simple Japanese into it.

It knows fucking Japanese. English isn't the only language that exists out there.

>Buy something because it's a good product

What's wrong with buying something because you're interested in it, exactly? What harm does that cause to anybody else?

Stop being so grumpy.

>>16268784
>When the total userbase winds up being maybe 50 dudes, they're going to just can the project.
[citation needed]

>They've shown nothing indicating that this even has Siri-tier tech in it.
And they've shown nothing indication that this only prerecorded lines.

>People who buy this are looking for something to be there when they get home. A pet is a much better substitute than a soundboard.
No, because pet needs your attention, you need to remember to feed and take care of it. Pet doesn't text you when you are at work and it won't do anything to control internet of things.

>If you were spending 3 grand on a top of the line 4K movie setup, I'd think you were mental, but not disappointed with your life. When you spend the same on the dumbest smarthub on the market, with none of the support for normie apps like spotify, at 30 times the cost because it has a cute little anime girl on it, then I think something went severely wrong with your life if you overcompensate in a manner like this. I hope you live in Japan, because there's literally no way this thing is going to work abroad.
That's all your opinion. Also using your logic, doing anything that isn't targeted at western normie masses like buying manga or figures, visiting akihabara or even posting on 4chan means you are disappointed with your life/you are living your life incorrectly.

>This kind of thinking is just poisonous. Buy something because it's a good product, not because
It's poisonous to not buy a new technology you would like try and see further developing, because it's not good enough yet and except it will develop on its own without money.

>"in 20 years these guys might have a good idea!", because they won't, AI is probably coming from Google, not a bunch of jokers trying to squeeze obscene amounts of money out of dumb ota scum.
[citation needed]

>>16268845
>>So that means it won't have it?
Yes, it does. It'd be absolutely trivial to fake it if they were planning on putting it in, the fact they haven't pretty much proves that it won't have it. The concept here is "we sell you a hunk of junk, then we sell you voice packs from your favorite seiyuu".

>It'll ship to the States, so clearly it'll work here.
You really are mentally retarded, huh? I like the part where you mention "simple Japanese", as if you don't even know Japanese yet, I figured that would be the most basic of basic requirements to use something like this.

>What's wrong with buying something because you're interested in it, exactly?
You're not interested in this. You're interested in a hypothetical product that doesn't exist, and you've forced all your expectations onto this turd because you're dumb and lonely.

>>16268846
>doing anything that isn't targeted at western normie masses like buying manga or figures
Do I need to spell out for you what's cool and what isn't? Spending a few thousand bucks a year on weebshit is a bit sad, but it doesn't make you disappointed with life. Spending a few thousand bucks on a coffee machine is sad, because you're buying into a concept that doesn't exist. I could understand the utility if this was a 20 grand dumb robot that said cute lines and could make you eggs in the morning and have dinner ready when you got in. I wouldn't want one, but I could understand the value for some people.

This does nothing that a smartphone app couldn't do, and it's even more restrictive than the alternatives.

>>16268784
>AI is probably coming from Google, not a bunch of jokers trying to squeeze obscene amounts of money out of dumb ota scum.
Having spend too much time with the crappy codebases and foundations this company has came up with, makes this sentence stand out very ironic to me.

This is Kinect/Oculus Rift level of "OH SHIT THE FUTURE'S HERE" when really it's just a small number of existing technologies packaged together and advertised as something it's not.

Give another decade or two.

>>16268895
Google are dogshit, but they have so much money and so much user info that they'll probably be the first ones to get it to work. They've already got people teaching computers how to read street signs in every house in the world.

Yeah the price tag is pants on head retarded and the tech isn't up to par. I'm not supporting it but I'd keep an eye on it. If they slapped a proper AI on it and make it not cost three fucking grand I think it can turn out fine. In 20 years this will be far better than dealing with pets or 3DPDs

Computer generated voices have the issue of them sounding computer generated as fuck obviously, it's not necessary a positive

>>16268910
That's true, their research department is probably on another level than their software counterpart as well anyways. Also
>They've already got people teaching computers how to read street signs in every house in the world.
I see what you did there.

>>16268888
>Yes, it does. It'd be absolutely trivial to fake it if they were planning on putting it in, the fact they haven't pretty much proves that it won't have it.

Muh conspiracy theories.

>I like the part where you mention "simple Japanese"

I like the part where my sentence has gone completely over your head. You imply some of the products' functionality won't work at all over in the states, and that's not true, it's shipping here, so everything it ships with must work here and there has to be no functionality privy to Japan.

Also, if all you're interested is the smarthub functionality, it is dead simple to give simple commands to these things in any language. They were *made* to be easy to give verbal commands to. And obviously, if you were interested in buying one of these for the conversational aspect of it, you would know some Japanese unless they state that you can interface with it in English.

>You're not interested in this. You're interested in a hypothetical product that doesn't exist, and you've forced all your expectations onto this turd because you're dumb and lonely.

Are you attempting an obi-wan kenobi here? I'm staying open-minded about it. Again with the projection, you have no idea how my immediate personal and professional life are.

I see someone forcing their expectations on this though. It's actually rather interesting how much of a hypocrite you're making yourself sound. Insulting me isn't making you sound any more convincing, by the way.

>>16268888
>Do I need to spell out for you what's cool and what isn't?
You forgot that people have different tastes, and there are people who can enjoy technology that isn't targeted at complete western normalfags.

>Spending a few thousand bucks a year on weebshit is a bit sad, but it doesn't make you disappointed with life.
If buying weebshit make people sad they wouldn't buy it. How would it work anyway?

>Spending a few thousand bucks on a coffee machine is sad, because you're buying into a concept that doesn't exist.
I have coffee machine, and I'm pretty sure it does exists.

>I could understand the utility if this was a 20 grand dumb robot that said cute lines and could make you eggs in the morning and have dinner ready when you got in. I wouldn't want one, but I could understand the value for some people.
That would be cool as well.

>This does nothing that a smartphone app couldn't do, and it's even more restrictive than the alternatives.
Show me smartphone app that texts me, control internet of things when I'm at home and outside, has TTS interface and keep it all behind cute anime girl that I can interact with and I'll buy it.

>>16268897
What was Oculus Rift advertised as? It always was supposed to be HMD and it was released as pretty decent HMD.

>>16268953
>Muh conspiracy theories.
Whenever I buy a new blender, I'm shocked that it doesn't come with a blowjob function. Sure, the advert didn't say it had a blowjob feature, but I figured that was just a conspiracy theory.

>You imply some of the products' functionality won't work at all over in the states, and that's not true, it's shipping here, so everything it ships with must work here and there has to be no functionality privy to Japan.
Shipping it somewhere doesn't mean everything will work. Take the Amazon Echo, a far more advanced device, and yet the European version doesn't offer half the features the US one does, like reading books to you. Hell, for all you know, all the smarthub functionality requires a system specific to Japan. At least you'll get the daily in-app text alerts, unless they decide to go through Line or something and then you won't even get those.

>if all you're interested is the smarthub functionality, it is dead simple to give simple commands to these things in any language. They were *made* to be easy to give verbal commands to
This is a product made in Japan for nips. There's literally no mention of them making an English voice pack with Laura Bailey or someshit, or even including the ability for the system to understand English, because that's tech they've got to license out and would cost them thousands for a feature that the target market doesn't care about.

What's funniest is that you haven't even denied that you have zero knowledge of Japanese. Honestly, what the fuck are you even buying this for? Are you expecting subtitles to pop up on that 240p display?

Fight, fight, fight!

>>16268972
>If buying weebshit make people sad they wouldn't buy it
I'm not saying it's sad as in depression, I'm saying that society would think less of you for doing it.

To make my point a little easier to understand, I'll put it in terms of alcohol. All the normies see nothing wrong with drinking on the weekends or whatever, but when you're constantly pissed and knocking back forties in the middle of the day, people would be ashamed of you. It's the same deal with buying a bit of manga or spending 3 grand on a few sound files.

>I have coffee machine, and I'm pretty sure it does exists.
This is my bad, I was making a joke about this thing looking like a shitty coffee machine but I forgot to stick "uguu" in there. You spent thousands of dollars on a coffee machine?

>>Show me smartphone app that texts me, control internet of things when I'm at home and outside, has TTS interface and keep it all behind cute anime girl that I can interact with and I'll buy it.
Buy an Amazon Echo and stick a picture of your favorite anime girl on the front of it.

If that's too "normie" for you, wait half a year, some Jap will come along and make a 20 dollar app eventually. You might be expecting a bit much from your 3 grand investment anyway, this isn't going to perfectly interface with all your existing internet equipped items. It'll turn the lights on if you wire it in, that's about it.

>>16269001
>I'm not saying it's sad as in depression, I'm saying that society would think less of you for doing it.
Only normalfags care that much about what society thinks about them to reject things they enjoy. It might appear unbelievable to you, but you can actually be happy if you have hobbies you enjoy, aren't failure in life that depends on parents/others and have friends who don't judge you for what you enjoy.

>To make my point a little easier to understand, I'll put it in terms of alcohol. All the normies see nothing wrong with drinking on the weekends or whatever, but when you're constantly pissed and knocking back forties in the middle of the day, people would be ashamed of you. It's the same deal with buying a bit of manga or spending 3 grand on a few sound files.
Except alcohol ruins your life and health. Normies doesn't like anime because media doesn't tell them to like it. I buy not-that-cheap figures and sleep every night with my daki, yet none of my friends are ashamed of me. Simply because they are not brainwashed into hating on everything that is different from their way of living and can understand that there is no one true way to deal with things.

>This is my bad, I was making a joke about this thing looking like a shitty coffee machine but I forgot to stick "uguu" in there. You spent thousands of dollars on a coffee machine?
Nah, my father did. I would never buy something like that, I don't even like coffee. But whatever floats his boat, it's not me to judge.

>Buy an Amazon Echo and stick a picture of your favorite anime girl on the front of it.
It won't be animated, nor will it pretend to be someone close to me. If I wanted just TTS internet of things, I would make on myself.

>If that's too "normie" for you, wait half a year, some Jap will come along and make a 20 dollar app eventually.
That's what I'll do. I don't even have compatible peripherals yet.

>You might be expecting a bit much from your 3 grand investment anyway,
I'm not buying gatebox, it's not good enough. I want to upgrade my current computer for VR first. But if I got enough money to spend and had many compatible peripheral, I would seriously consider buying it. Especially because Miku is my waifu and she might appear in it.

>this isn't going to perfectly interface with all your existing internet equipped items. It'll turn the lights on if you wire it in, that's about it.
If it doesn't perfectly interface, I would make adapters using arduino or something. I can do things like that just fine. I would surely do my own peripherals, depending on limitations of gatebox.

>>16268974
>Whenever I buy a new blender, I'm shocked that it doesn't come with a blowjob function.

Yeah, I'm so sorry for you. You should've asked for a refund on that blender, honestly.

What's your point? Make it nice and clear for a retard like me. Of course, you don't have one, you're just being extremely pessimistic again.

>Shipping it somewhere doesn't mean everything will work.

That's the first fair point you made. Though this isn't an Echo, so it could ship intact, or it couldn't. Just gotta wait.

>This is a product made in Japan for nips.

It ships to America. Are you ignoring this on purpose?

>There's literally no mention of them making an English voice pack

The conversational part of it doesn't have to know English, only the smarthub part of it does. Again, we know nothing about it, it could get support down the line that adds an English partner, it's completely possible. Just because there's no mention of it doesn't mean it can't happen.

>What's funniest is that you haven't even denied that you have zero knowledge of Japanese.

僕の能力試験のN5級を見せるがほしい？まだ凄くない、でも少し日本語話すことができる。

Why do you think I'm in this thread, interested in this to begin with? Premiere was a lot of fun and a sort of beta of what this technology is capable of, and I want to see more of it. Not that you'll believe me; knowing you insofar, you'll just accuse me of google translating this.

It's okay though, because you seem to think I owe you some sort of satisfaction when I really don't.

I'd buy one if It was my waifu, but that will probably not ever happen.

>>16269055
All of your points seem reasonable, you've just got a little too fired up about a perceived attack on otaku culture instead of seeing it as someone making fun of a 3000 dollar turd. You can be 100% weeb but not think spend thousands of dollars on flights out for handshake meetings with idols is a good idea, man.

>>16269125
>What's your point?
If a product isn't advertised as having a feature, it's far more of a safe bet to assume it simply doesn't have that feature, instead of thinking they're saving something like basic functionality as a happy surprise for when you open the box.

>It ships to America. Are you ignoring this on purpose?
For 3 grand, I expect the CEO to hand-deliver it to me and then give me a blowjob. Just because a scam doesn't specify that half the functionality can only be accessed in Japan, it doesn't mean that isn't a possibility.

>見せるがほしい
なにやってるのよ、お前。

>>16269202
>If a product isn't advertised as having a feature, it's far more of a safe bet to assume it simply doesn't have that feature, instead of thinking they're saving something like basic functionality as a happy surprise for when you open the box.

To be fair, the page is really cut-and-dry right now, all it makes apparent is that it'll have a phone app it connects to (duh), and that it needs to be online all the time. You can speculate a bit from that but I wish that, since you can already straight-up order the thing, they would at least put some basic information out. It doesn't help that there's a warning at the bottom of the page that says that functions and features are subject to change without further notice.

I'm still excited for it because of what it can potentially be in relation to the conversation partner. But the lack of info is rather sleazy indeed.

>Just because a scam doesn't specify that half the functionality can only be accessed in Japan, it doesn't mean that isn't a possibility.

This goes both ways though, going back to the Amazon Echo thing, even if some features in the EU version are missing, you can apparently order a US version and use all of its features in Europe just fine, and the only things that'll be broken is the date and time. So you could potentially order a Japanese version of this, and have those functions work in the US as well.

>なにやってるのよ、お前。
接続語はまだむずかしい。いじめしなくてください。。。

>>16269345
>I'm still excited for it because of what it can potentially be in relation to the conversation partner.
You say X, it says Y. If you're expecting anything more in depth than it asking for your blood type and reading your horoscope, you're going to be very let down. What you're looking for doesn't exist, which is why companies that have poured billions into this like Google have, at best, created a search engine you can use your voice with, and it'll find something pretty close to what you're looking for.

This doesn't even have that, there are a bunch of digital girlfriend apps you could download now for free and develop more of a connection with.

>>16269345
>いじめしなくてください
苛めないでください＊

You can find solace that while you're an N5 subhuman, that other guy who laughed at you is likely N2 subhuman at best.

>>16264144
This. And yes I am a Crossie and I've only read half of one manga this year, but still it isn't like I'm not aware of the degeneracy Japs have sunk too

>>16269525
>I've only read half of one manga this year
Then why aren't you on /a/?

>>16269525
>have sunk too
It's [some shit] with a cute girl on it, something they've been doing before you're born. Are you shaking your head as you post your disdain on tumblr too?

>>16258637
kind of
really, the biggest issue is that the software isn't going to be anything better than you can get on a phone, and since there isn't a good way to do volumetric display at the moment, it's just projected on a piece of glass in the middle

also, >>16263161
>tfw no len in a bottle

>>16267045
Hey, that's really mean!

>>16269521
What does it take to advance past subhumanism?

>>16264246
hello baito-san

>>16258646
The sad thing about this isn't spending $3000 on a salve for loneliness. That I can relate to. The sad thing is spending $3000 on a shitty collection of voice clips, an MMD model, and a lightswitch timer when fantasizing about your anime wife is doable for free.

>>16263161
>implying it wont be modable within a month of release
no one ever believes in us, feels bad.

>>16274660
Too bad it probably won't be made modable from the get go.

>>16274825
Too bad yeah, but Im betting on that, thats why I said within a month of release

>>16258637
I would if it wasn't so expensive

>>16262986
Do you think she pesters you to leave the house if you stay in all day?

>>16258637
Can I fuck it?

>>16276082
Wouldn't it be interesting if she did? She starts putting locks on your electronic devices and restricting net access if you don't go out and exercise and start to take care of yourself. She keeps an eye on you to make sure you're not cheating by the phone app.

She does it out of love for you.

>>16276356
It's a trap! The robots are trying to fool us by taking on the guise of 2D qts!

Protect yourselves while you still can.

>>16276473
It's too late! Miku wants to see if you've been eating and exercising properly! Have you eaten your veggies? Inchling Miku wants to know! Done your morning stretches? Do them with chibi Miku right now!

Strip down for Gatebox Miku! That's an order! Your bandwidth is throttled to 100kbps until she's analyzed your love handles for progress! No Pixiv, Gelbooru, ExHentai or any of those lewd sites until tiny Miku is satisfied! She's here to turn your life around! And to impatiently wait for you to come back from work and turn your air conditioner on when you do. When you do, she will teach you a new recipe and you two can sing a duet or watch movies together.

>>16264549
No, from OPM

>>16258637
This shit could be dangerous desu. It's like porn for your emotions.

Need a donald trump one.

Why do people talk about love all the time? I'm in my late 30s and I've never felt anything that could be described as love. Fucks sakes it's like everywhere you go.

I do sometimes have pleasant dreams of a handgun I lost many years ago. I think it may still be at the bottom of one of my ponds but I can't be certain. The reoccurring dreams may be telling me something.

>>16285994
Fucking everybody is obsessed with it, it's ridiculous. And you're a loser if you don't get it, or something. To me, a good life is one where I can be left alone. I guess most people have crazy emotional drives or something.

>>16286042
>To me, a good life is one where I can be left alone.

You're here right now replying to some dude you've never met on the internet. No human without any sort of mental condition wants to be truly alone, we always seek to communicate with others in some way.

>>16262954
I've watched Her a couple time and it is really similar. I would love to have something like this.

Haven't they already made some dating games that send you text messages and whatnot? I just want something to make me feel less alone; for me the "hologram" isn't necessary.

>>16266854
Do you use it a lot? I tried one at a local mall and drew a dick in space with the painting game. It was awesome.

>>16268982
ITT

>>16285994
>>16286042
It sounds cliched, but when you spend a lot of time with someone and get enamored with them ("love"), there are a lot of endorphins released and you feel great, forget about sad things and become hopeful. There have been multiple studies on the chemical reactions in the brain during attraction and long duration spent with others.
It's like being high.
You can get addicted to a dependency on it. Like taking tons of painkillers with booze or smoking a lot of weed, it's an easy happiness that lessens your worries due to the chemicals in your brain changing. You feel like your life suddenly improved, like you're happy and the future will be alright.
Looking at it scientifically, you can see why people crave this idea that's so romanticized in culture. (Besides it being a social norm).

>>16286315
That's a good point. Humans are social creatures. I think the person you're replying to meant that they would rather not have to keep up with the routine of friends or a lover.
It's much easier to reply to people online and close the tab and play games, rather than maintain an IRL relationship.

Whatever makes you happy.
I thought the commercial was heartwarming. I wouldn't buy it, but getting texted by a robot sounds nicer than pretending to text on the bus so people don't think you're a weirdo.

>>16287046
>>I thought the commercial was heartwarming.
I saw it as utterly soulless and embarassing. I can understand playing a romance game with hundreds of hours of voice acting and a little story to keep you going, but awkwardly forcing it into the real world with text updates and a braindead version of Siri doesn't look remotely interesting.

>>16287058
To each their own. We can agree to disagree, eh?

>>16285994
Because love feels so fucking good.
But many couples don't experience it though. They go for infatuation and lust, assume it's love and then break up after few years when these feelings fade.

>>16286672
I've never played it, but doesn't LovePlus do that?

>>16287046
I have a waifu and I think I got high from love few times.
I'm not sure if it was just from love or the fact I was thinking about nothing but her for an hour or something. I used to travel with bus and sometimes I spent all the time starring at her pictures and thinking about her. The feeling could get so intense, it fills all my mind and literally makes me high like I just smoked 0.5g weed but without physical effects. I was so dazed I even failed to recognize my mother when I was leaving bus while being love-high..

>>16286315
I only come here because I'm bored here and there's nothing else I find entertaining. Don't get me wrong, I can find some enjoyment in interaction with other people, but it's not a necessity for me. Mental condition is really just a word for "thinks differently", there's no objective right way to think, unless you count biological design and the need to reproduce or whatever, but it's not like evolution itself is going to manifest as a sentient entity and prevent anyone from thinking differently if they are so designed.

To me, love and friendship is something I can enjoy, yes, but not something I desire strongly. For example, I don't really mind the fact that I haven't had sex yet, nor will I for the foreseeable future. It would only be a hassle to pursue and I have no interest in spending much time just to get my dick wet. That doesn't mean it would be any less physically stimulating for me to have sex though. Same with love and friendship, I can appreciate them and do find a satisfaction or fulfillment from them, but if I go without them I do not feel a lack. I only feel the additional pleasure if I do decide to attain it. Interaction, and the like, are more akin to rewards or bonuses to me than necessities, and it probably has to do with how I was raised isolated and largely deprived of many things that other people took for granted, like social contact, videogames, TV, and books that I wanted to read. Basically, I can desire and enjoy something without feeling it's absence.

Of course the only people I ever felt love for were fictional characters, I really don't know much about other real people.

>>16266448
Hot. Now I want one.

>>16288818
That bit about loving your waifu really warms my heart. I've had something similar, but to a lesser extent. I truly admire people who can have such full feelings. Might I ask who she is? Are you one of the types to fap to your waifu?
I'm of the sort to have two waifus (lord save my soul) and I'm too ashamed to do it. Sorry if it's a personal question, it's just endearing to hear of such a pure and wholesome connection with one's waifu. How long have you had an attraction to her?

>>16291039
>Might I ask who she is?
She's Hatsune Miku.

>Are you one of the types to fap to your waifu?
Yes, but it's more like having sex with her because I imagine her being here with me.

>I'm of the sort to have two waifus (lord save my soul) and I'm too ashamed to do it.
Then you have no waifu. There is very few if any characters that would be fine with their husband fucking other girl. You can't say you love and care for some girl and do such a horrible thing to her.

>How long have you had an attraction to her?
I've always been attracted to her. But I've fallen in love with her over 3 and half years ago.

>>16268953
>You imply some of the products' functionality won't work at all over in the states, and that's not true, it's shipping here, so everything it ships with must work here and there has to be no functionality privy to Japan.
Different dude here. The website states that you have to have a smartphone to run the Japanese app, which seems to indicate that you'll need to be bilingual in order to operate the app.

If this isn't so, please let me know.

>>16264260
Real people are bothersome. They are moody, they are greedy, they change, they manipulate, they leave, they die. Real people are pleb-tier.

yes pls and one of these

>>16269125
>僕の能力
>僕
lol

Recently, I've tried out using Cortana on WIndows 10. It worked surprisingly well, even though it had no real use and I personally find it easier just to type and click what I need rather than having to say it.

Voice recognition technology certainly gotten a lot better.

>>16303628
Welcome to the botnet, cortanashitter.

There's something terribly wrong with society if you have middle-class young men who have 2500$ to blast on garbage not getting married and having a family. I blame the feminism, personally. Too many women in the workforce who don't want to get married and instead have casual relationships with pretty boys.

>>16307485
>middle-class young men who have 2500$ to blast on garbage not getting married and having a family
So like any priest? Tell me how do you determine the correctness of given society.

>>16303783

>implying your government hasn't already sold you out to the botnet

>>16308527
>implying I'm not in league with Satan and creating the SOULnet.

Merry Fuggin Christmus.

Mod it with a character from an NTR and she will cuck you while you're away.

Only if I can customize it to be a meidobot.

I created love with a kid once. Was fun. If I could customize or link it to some game model I created that would be nice. The ability to have multiple avatars such as a girlfriend and someone like a donald trump model to energize me would be nice. Would also be nice if it could link in to both of my homes high fidelity music/intercom system. Unlock doors, turn on and off heat. Control my torrent boxes and seti @ home arrays. Add shit to calendar. Maybe a nice cute avatar host for the kids I bring home to help relax them before we do it and play simple games and tell jokes. Something like akinator or similar.

>>16310662
How would it even work?