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http://www.ajudaily.com/view/20200207175148638
Video discussed in the story is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oglnV2P_QBI (in Korean).
A special TV documentary that depicted the tearful reunion of a sorrow-stricken mother and her daughter, who died of a rare incurable disease at the age of seven, in the virtual world has touched the hearts of many viewers in South Korea.
"Maybe it's a real paradise," Jang Ji-sung, the mother of four children, said of the moment she met her deceased daughter, Nayeon. "I met Nayeon, who called me with a smile, for a very short time, but it's a very happy time. I think I've had the dream I've always wanted."
The MBC documentary titled "I Met You" aired on February 6. For eight months, the production team has used VR technology to implement Nayeon's face, body, and voice. The reunion took place in a park with memories of Jang and her daughter. The motion of a child model was recorded as motion capture and implemented on the monitor to reproduce the scene at a VR studio.
Nayeon, the third of Jang's children, passed away in 2016. The mother engraved Nayeon's name and birthday on her body to remember her daughter forever. Wearing a necklace with Nayeon's bone powder, she visits a charnel house once a month.
As a white butterfly flew and sat in one place, the sound of Nayeon's song was heard. Jang burst into tears when her daughter ran with the cry of "Mom" and said, "Where have you been, Mom? Did you think about me?"
Jang responded with a doleful voice, "I do all the time." As her daughter said, "I missed mom a lot," Jang replied, "I missed you, too." The mother was cautious to reach out to touch her daughter before Nayeon insisted, "mom, please hold my hand." Jang finally held her daughter's hand in her's with tears streaming down her face. Nayeon's father, brother and sister watched the encounter they've dreamed of at the side of the virtual stage, also crying.
Submitting without comment - I'll leave my comments in the comments -- FP
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Thursday February 13 2020, @03:13AM (3 children)
I wasn't sure why but the whole idea seemed not only Creepy, but Wrong to me. You pretty much said my feelings perfectly.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Thursday February 13 2020, @03:31AM (2 children)
Price increases? Pay it or your dead daughter gets it between the eyes. Mandatory upgrades so that it "ages." Now she needs a boy/girlfriend. You don't want her being lonely like you, do you? Oops - she's pregnant.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 14 2020, @01:17AM (1 child)
Even worse than that, imagine something out of "Surface Detail." Imagine "keep paying us, or you really will not like what happens to your precious daughter next time you log in," then on next login, the entire virtual landscape is red-hot metal and your virtual "daughter" is covered in full-thickness burns, being flayed alive and raped by demons, screaming at the top of her lungs for you to save her.
I do not put it past one of these assholes to think of something like that.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday February 14 2020, @01:45AM
There was a sci-fi story where people could visit AI copies of the dead, but they would gradually deteriorate on purpose to force people to accept the loss. The resolution would get worse, more grainy, the responses less relevant to the conversation, until it was just static.
The way people grieve over lost Facebook accounts instead of either just starting another one or abandoning Facebook is a symptom. So is people suing to try to get access to dead relatives email accounts - if they wanted you to have any particular email they would have BCC'd you. Accounts that aren't accessed within a year should be automatically deleted. So what if you are in a coma for 30 years - do you think that you want to communicate with all those strangers? It's like a bad 40-year high school reunion. Sure, I'd have a laugh because nobody would recognize me, but it's inevitable that some became alcoholics or druggies or whatever, and they should be free not to be humiliated by their former peers.
Besides, my worst bullies died of throat cancer, so no "do you still beat up women " confrontations. Bit of a bummer.
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