Called ChameleonMask, also known as 'Human Uber', the service aims to provide 'agents' to users, allowing them to participate in activities without leaving the home, somewhat like some domestic errands.
Unlike run errands, however, the service's agent needs to have the touch screen on their face, which the designer calls "masks," to show the real user's face, simply by making a video call Face with the agent to go out.
Then, remote users can stay active in their home's couches, beds, toilets or anywhere they choose.
This fanciful product was compared to some of the ideas in the television series Black Mirror, a Netflix dystopian drama that explores the dangers of 'technology paranoia' and the potential dangers of modern technology.
There is currently no news that this product will really be produced in the mass market.
Earlier this week, Jun Rekimoto, a futurologist at Sony Computer Science Laboratory and AR / VR researcher, demonstrated Uber at the EmTech event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review in Singapore.
The agent not only displays the user's face on the screen, but also mimics the other's body movements.
'Our initial research confirms that people regard masked people as real people,' says Rekimoto, who told The Select All in New York Magazine that he believes this 'human Uber' service has a very wide range of future applications.