The video at the top of this post is one of the most moving, emotionally powerful uses of technology I’ve seen in a long time, and there’s not a lot of context you need to know in order to imagine the full weight of what the mother must be feeling in the clip above. Basically, what you see in the footage, from a South Korean documentary that aired a few days ago, is the product of a team that worked to recreate the likeness of a seven-year-old girl named Nayeon who died in 2016. They used virtual reality technology to recreate her face, voice, body, and movements.
The fact that you can see tears streaming down the mother’s face, even from underneath the VR headset she’s strapped on to see what the team produced, tells you how profoundly moving the experience of encountering a digital yet lifelike version of her daughter must have been. Per the Korean news outlet Aju Business Daily, the production team worked on this project for eight months. Attention was paid to the smallest detail, even the park-like surroundings through which young Nayeon first scampers into view to greet her flabbergasted mother. The mother can be seen stretching out her hands to try and hold the avatar of her daughter one more time — the child she loved so much that she tattooed her name on her body and wears a necklace containing some of her ashes. In Korean, the virtual version of her daughter strides right up to her mother and asks, according to an English translation, “Where have you been, Mom? Did you think about me?”
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If you could use VR to see a dead loved one again one more time, would you want to? originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 02:57:48 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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