{"id":37897,"date":"2019-03-29T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37897"},"modified":"2019-03-29T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T07:22:20","slug":"magic-leaps-assistant-looks-alarmingly-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37897","title":{"rendered":"Magic Leap&#8217;s assistant looks alarmingly human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN Business)<\/cite>The tech world&#8217;s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2018\/10\/10\/apple-1-trillion-market-value-orig.cnn-business\">Apple<\/a> has Siri, and Amazon has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/28\/tech\/amazon-echo-event\/index.html\">Alexa<\/a>. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Mica isn&#8217;t just a voice assistant. She&#8217;s something you can actually see if you wear the company&#8217;s augmented-reality glasses, called <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/08\/technology\/magic-leap-one-creator\/index.html\">Magic Leap One<\/a>. Mica looks and acts like a human \u2014 she makes eye contact and offers a warm smile, along with other human-like expressions.  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN Business)The tech world&#8217;s latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human.Apple has Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday. Mica isn&#8217;t just a voice assistant. She&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}