This will become a common form of augmented reality, another mix of offlining and onlining or as I'm christening it 'meshlining' or to 'meshline'. True forms of the convergence, fusing into so many still unimagined creative possibilities.
Do you want to construct yourself as the perfect or near perfect avatar? What do you do? You visit the avatar maker shop of course. This has so so many possibilities. Imagine that you're single and love brazilian girls and want to find a new girlfriend. What do you? You go to the local Avatar shop and build a near perfect face avatar of yourself with a few subtle embellishments, but it's you in face and body. You then join a dating virtual world or probably a realisitic interpretation of our world like google earth. There you can virtually fly to Rio. In virtual Rio you can enter virtual bars, clubs even beaches and chat up Brazilian girls who are in reality near perfect visual face and body interpretations of themselves too. The offline population would suddenly have I'm guessing a hundred times more friends virtually than offline reality. But would they be meshline friends, real virtual friends? Let the blur begin.
The big question is would your meshline friends be their real faces and bodies though? That is going to be an interesting problem to solve and bring value to a virtual world. Will there be completely credible virtual worlds where you can only join it if you can prove who you really are? Will there be some form of creditable meshlining law to prove you are who you say you are as you switch from one certified virtual world to another where they guarantee that everyone is who they say they are? Will only you be able to control the virtual you? This opens up so many moral dilemmas. What would happen if someone stole your virtual identity? Virtual identity theft in a virtual world, causing virtual havoc. I can't wait to experience this especially when it will no doubt son be generated through your own laptop webcam and not in a shop or will it? via TVinJapan.
UPDATE - the 3D Animated self in any game or video - via trendhunter reporting from CES
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