[pixitar]

Pixitar stands for Pixelated Live Avatar. It's a webapp that shares a pixelated picture of yourself every so often in order to foster closeness amongst distributed teams. Think "peripheral vision" over your webcam. pixitar.com

Checkout our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PSeiNRBxo

Pretty simple: Would you use this? Would you pay for it? How much? And what suggestions do you have about the experience?

Thank you!

[mohammadmansur]

I think the you've identified a valid need, but your video fails to communicate (in my opinion) that your solution is fulfilling the need properly.

Let's just start with the video. The awkward video stills take up too much of the video, and the music is horrible.

With the negatives out of the way, on to the positives. The real-time avatars for increased closeness pitch really clicks for me. I'm just not sure if pixelation is the way to go. Maybe a more artistic filter (cartoonify, sketch, water-color, brush-stroke) would do the trick.

I wouldn't use or pay for it since I don't manage distributed teams so I'm not your targeted customer, but I'm wondering if Pixitar by itself would be enough for someone to adopt it. Maybe if it were a plugin or somehow worked with collaboration tools like Lync, Skype, Convo, Yammer etc. it would be a much better proposal.

Best of luck and points for thinking different :)

[pixitar]

Thank you for your feedback!

[auganov]

I definitely want something that would solve that problem, but this is far from a decent solution. I think you need to go more abstract and consider other sources of 'presence' or activity and it's presentation. Some form of a video/animated gravatar. Could be really big. I'm very bullish on things that come up with new forms of human interaction that are native to the internet.

[pixitar]

Intersting, animated gravatar is one way that I've described it in the past. Thanks for your comments!