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

[One-Scruple]

Surely this would start your grieving all over again seeing them like that , it’s bad enough looking at a photo of someone you miss, this would be torture.

 

[Crimelover2022]

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?

I wish I was able to say a final goodbye to my loved ones... I think it might be helpful.. but it would rip the wound open again.. for me at least

 

[Rabidface]

I'd like it. I'd be at a park by myself. No cue for the rides.

 

[Pïggÿ]

This is one of the most disturbing videos on this site.
I have no interest in talking to a virtual AI version of someone I once knew.
Let the dead be dead.