Question 1

What is WeAlgo?

Accepted Answer

WeAlgo lets you join group video calls with a customised biometric avatar. We saveguard your privacy by making explicit what routine video calls implicitely provide.

Question 2

What's a biometric avatar?

Accepted Answer

A representation of yourself, created with face recognition software.

Question 3

Why WeAlgo?

Accepted Answer

To enhance privacy, to play with identity, to cut pollution but above all to experiment & play.

Question 4

How does it work?

Accepted Answer

WeAlgo computes your biometric avatar, lets you customise it and distributes it (with your audio) to a Meeting Room with other users.

Question 5

How do you cut pollution?

Accepted Answer

By streaming keypoints data only —instead of compressed video— we save 95% bandwidth costs and related pollution.

Question 6

Is it Private?

Accepted Answer

Rooms are public with the exception of your self created private room.

Question 7

Is it secure?

Accepted Answer

We use WebRTC technology for P2P, end to end encrypted communication.

Question 8

Is Wealgo biased?

Accepted Answer

Probably yes, and we realize that we are in a position to think & feel that way, where many are not. It is our ultimate mission to make Wealgo inclusive to all human and non-human agents. If you find us exclusive in any way, shape or form, please email us so we can help you and you can help us.

Question 9

Does WeAlgo really recognise me?

Accepted Answer

It probably doesn't ;) We are still finding out.

Question 10

Do I need to register?

Accepted Answer

No you don't. You can use WeAlgo without registration, and without a screen name. You can be totally anonimous.

Question 11

How do I participate in a Room?

Accepted Answer

Rooms are urls. Type the name of the room in the input field to go there. Or receive a link URL to take you there straight away.

Question 12

Do you collect or store my data?

Accepted Answer

No we don't. No cookies, no trackers, no registration, no identification, no advertising ... We do store data —eg your custom Mask— in local storage on your own machine.

Question 13

What's your business model, how do you make money of WeAlgo?

Accepted Answer

We don't ;) We have partime jobs and are kindly supported by a number of co-financers, mostly artistic/creative funds.

Question 14

How can I help?

Accepted Answer

1. Use it and tell us want you think
2. Propose a project
3. Donate
4. Evangelise

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