Would you visit your dead loved ones in a VR world?

[Dolly]

In 2016, Jang Ji-sung’s seven-year-old daughter Nayeon died of an incurable disease Three years later, the South Korean mother was reunited with Nayeon — sort of — in a virtual world created for a televised documentary.

According to Aju Business Daily, the production team spent eight months on the project. They designed the virtual park after one the mother and daughter had visited in the real world, and used motion capture technology to record the movements of a child actor that they could later use as a model for their virtual Nayeon.

I wonder how far can we be from a platform that lets anyone upload footage of a deceased love one and then interact with a virtual version of that person? Years? Months?

And what sort of impact will that have on the grieving process? Will seeing a loved one in VR help people find closure and move on following a death? Will some people become addicted to this virtual world, spending more and more time in it and less and less in the real one?

And will it stop with VR? Or is this just the first step to androids designed to mimic our dead loved ones in both appearance and personality, like in the “Black Mirror” episode Be Right Back?

 

[Abyss]

this is unnatural, death is part of life, there's no need to open wounds like this. leave it to the gooks to come up with ways to fuck up with Nature's intended way.

 

[M.O.DENGLER]

I don't have any dead loved ones.

Only people who will no doubt bollock me and ask for their money back.

I suppose I could virtually tell them to get fucked.

 

[King-Rory]

I don't have any dead loved ones.

Only people who will no doubt bollock me and ask for their money back.

I suppose I could virtually tell them to get fucked.

I tell you to get fucked virtually every day!

 

[M.O.DENGLER]

I tell you to get fucked virtually every day!

true story.

 

[King-Rory]

true story.

Well yeah, but not to your face, I'm far too polite for that kind of behaviour.

 

[DrY]

Doesn’t that keep you from dealing With grief and moving on? maybe for the death of a child if you can’t go on.

 

[D.O.A.]

Asians might be good at math but they're fucking retarded at everything else, jerking off to cartoons and eating insects plus this and the polluted overpopulated shitholes they live in, fuck em all.

 

[McM]

No, I didn't want to see them in the real world too. Once/twice a year was enough.

I'm using VR to fly old Messerschmitts in WW2, that's nice. Maybe I should build me a seat that gives me electric shocks when the enemy hits me as an enhancement.
Sorry for the off-topic.

 

[SPHINCTERPUNCH]

It doesn't matter how well or accurate to detail U make it...It's still FAKE...But there's always gonna B those Strange Type that would get into it...As said above,Death is a part of life...Move on...SP

 

[deviant2]

No thank you, hard pass on this virtual crap.

 

[PinkE]

There was a Dark Mirror episode like this

 

[pappa stupid]

this is unnatural, death is part of life, there's no need to open wounds like this. leave it to the gooks to come up with ways to fuck up with Nature's intended way.

orientals evolved from fish, that is why they are soulless !

 

[guyme91 📦🔓]

This is not much different than looking back at photos and videos of a loved one that died. The interaction with the virtual person is fictitious and not much different than us imagining the person and potential conversations and activities that we may have had with that person. No virtual world will ever be able to recreate a person perfectly and just like that episode of Black Mirror it will leave us with the thought that the person really is gone and no simulation could fully recreate them.

 

[Bethy 🔥]

To me, this is like picking off a scab and wondering why the wound wont heal 🤦🏼‍♀️

 

[King-Rory]

To me, this is like picking off a scab and wondering why the wound wont heal 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yeah but the plus side is that you get a whole new fresh scab to pick off!

 

[Brainfart]

Yeah but the plus side is that you get a whole new fresh scab to pick off!

Or a new scab to eat, like this guy...

 

[King-Rory]

Or a new scab to eat, like this guy...

🤮 omfg! that is even worse than when people eat bogey's !

 

[D.O.A.]

The interaction with the virtual person is fictitious and not much different than us imagining the person and potential conversations and activities that we may have had with that person

The AI you're gonna converse with, is it really going to be anything like the personality of the deceased, or just a random set of animated "emotions" picked from a master list of traits. Looking at this thing might be like a high tech photograph, but actually talking to it will be anyone's fucking guess . This shit's bizzare Asian stuff.

 

[guyme91 📦🔓]

The AI you're gonna converse with, is it really going to be anything like the personality of the deceased, or just a random set of animated "emotions" picked from a master list of traits. Looking at this thing might be like a high tech photograph, but actually talking to it will be anyone's fucking guess . This shit's bizzare Asian stuff.

I think we are hundreds of years away from being able to perfectly replicate someone's personality perfectly and that is if it is even possible at all. There was an episode of Black Mirror where they recreated people and they just weren't quite right. To do it properly it would require a full understanding of the human brain and the ability to download all information from a brain and perfectly replicate it.