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Beyond chat and voice: Realistic real-time video avatar with dynamic UI

AbrahamJaffar

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As a software engineer, Imma be homeless in less than a year due to AI. So before AI comes for my job let me join forces with it to create something cool.

I looked around the market of AI and nobody has done the hard job of redesigning the UX beyond a chatbot or voice. Both are replacements, not true innovations. What if the user is too lazy to type? What if the user is too scared to call and give up their number? You have used blackberries of AI till now. Let me introduce you to the iPhone.

Introducing Samantha, (loom video demo) from caravatars.com

Samantha is a real-time realistic video agent that greets visitors on your website. It can dynamically change UI to fit queries from inventory, trade-in, financing and booking. Oh and unlike a voice AI call where the user can't see the info they are giving and chatbots where they have to type it manually. This tech breezes through everything like a BD person would. Except its faster than them and can actually show people their cars and options visually.

And the best part, the user consents clearly to talk to an AI, the expectation of talking to a human and the mistrust when AI replies is flipped directly on its head. Not to mention sidestepping the telemarketing laws entirely. Instead of getting a form filled and nurturing it. Nurturing happens before any information is ever committed with arguably the smoothest UX experience you could ask for. When you hold hand of a buyer through the process from step 1, there is no way they will buy from anyone else.

That was me being super excited about it. But we are at very early stages so skepticism and critical feedback is really needed. What do you think? Will it achieve results or just be another gimmick?


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A software engineer introduces 'Samantha,' an AI video avatar product for dealership websites via caravatars.com, positioning it as a UX leap beyond chatbots and voice assistants. The pitch argues that neither typing nor phone calls serve all customers, and a realistic real-time video agent with dynamic UI elements — including inventory, trade-in, and F&I — is the true next step. The post is a vendor announcement with a Loom demo, though the thread content is truncated before any community responses are visible.

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