A metaverse company wants to make virtual clones of people so that when they die, their loved ones can still speak to them.
The creators of metaverse game Somnium Space are working on a 'Live Forever' mode which would store users' movements, conversation and voice as data, then use this to create a virtual avatar clone of them.
The idea is that it would enable people to interact with AI-powered clones of their dead loved ones, long after they're gone.
This digital afterlife is the brainchild of Arthur Sychov, who was inspired to pursue the project after his father died of cancer.
Sychov told VICE: "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."
Somnium Space works with virtual reality headsets, which means users would have the feeling of physical presence with their deceased loved ones.
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The 'Live Forever' project will utilise a full-body VR suit that tracks all of your movements and combine this with recordings of your speech and voice.
Sychov added: "We can take this data and apply AI to it and recreate you as an avatar on your land parcel or inside your NFT world, and people will be able to come and talk to you."
His company hopes to launch the first immortal AI avatars of its users by next year. So, if you've already spent thousands on being cryogenically frozen, it might be time to ask for a refund.
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