{"id":8028,"date":"2018-10-09T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=8028"},"modified":"2018-10-09T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:02:35","slug":"facebooks-portal-is-the-videophone-of-your-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/facebooks-portal-is-the-videophone-of-your-nightmares\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook’s “Portal” is the videophone of your nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook has created a new way to videochat with your Facebook friends. It’s not an app, nor is it some awkward virtual-reality playpen. It’s a device called Portal, and it’s meant to sit in your living room and serve as a two-way conduit for conversations with faraway friends and family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The company that invades your life in every way is today asking you to stick a stationary camera in your living room and pay for the pleasure.<\/p>\n

I can only assume this is meant for people who A) have no concern for the privacy what-so-ever and B) don’t own a smartphone.<\/p>\n

The Portal is available in two varieties, a larger 1080p version for US$349 and a smaller 720p for US$199. Both have AI built-in that Facebook claims is self-contained and does not<\/em> send data back to the mothership that utilising the 140 degree camera can track the caller as you get up and walk around the room, zoomed in on the user.<\/p>\n

While Facebook are hardly the first to bring a device like this to market, Amazon’s Echos do a similar thing, they are the ones I’m least likely to allow<\/em> into my living room giving their practices and continual user data issues.<\/p>\n

Source: Facebook Portal: Price, Specs, Release Date | WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook has created a new way to videochat with your Facebook friends. It’s not an app, nor is…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8028\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}