Idea
Oasis: a Zoom replacement that sends pixel coordinates, not video
Shaan breaks down Oasis, a startup that renders a photoreal digital version of you on calls. Because it transmits face-tracking pixel data instead of video, it works on terrible connections, and you always look great. He cites that 60%+ of North Americans won't turn their camera on out of self-consciousness.
“And so, you know, over 60% of people don't actually turn their camera on in, in North America because they're self-conscious of how they look. And, um, that kind of sucks. And now we're video calling without the video, right? And he's like, so what if instead you could have a representation of you That wasn't like cartoony. It's not like an emoji or an animoji or whatever the Apple thing is. It literally looks like you.”
Steal thisFind a magic-trick demo so jarring it spreads itself, then attack a giant incumbent (Zoom) on a dimension it can't easily re-architect.
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