Apr 23 2024
A metaverse company is offering you a chance to live forever
Sat 16 Apr 2022
Several people have always wondered about the idea of what it would be like to live forever and now it looks like the concept might soon come to life.
A metaverse company is setting up a virtual world with a mode that allows the user to ‘live forever’.
Artur Sychov was motivated to create his digital universe after his father was diagnosed with cancer.
He was worried that his young children might not get to know their grandfather before he died.
Sychov is the founder of Somnium Space which has been working on a way to record your conversations, speaking voice, mannerisms and even movements.
It’s hoped this data will be turned into a virtual avatar that you can visit inside the Somnium metaverse.
Once you’re in this digital world, you could be able to interact with and speak to people who might no longer be with us on the planet.
Artur said that the ‘Live Forever’ mode might allow us to never miss our dead friends or family members because we could have a conversation with them whenever we wanted.
“Literally, if I die—and I have this data collected—people can come or my kids, they can come in, and they can have a conversation with my avatar, with my movements, with my voice. You will meet the person. And you would maybe for the first 10 minutes while talking to that person, you would not know that it’s actually AI. That’s the goal,” he explained.
The cool thing about Somnium Space is that it’s already compatible with this generation’s array of virtual reality headsets.
Artur reveals there’s so much that can be analysed in VR.
“The amount of data we potentially could record about you is probably on the magnitude of, I’d say realistically, 100-to-300 times more than when you’re on a mobile phone,” he said.
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