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A grieving mother was recently given the chance be reunited with a recreation of her deceased daughter in virtual reality. Jang Ji-sung's daughter Nayeon died in 2016 from an incurable disease at the age of seven.
The video (uploaded by MBC Documentary) of Ji-sun interacting with her deceased daughter was aired as part of a South Korean documentary on February 6. The team behind the documentary spent eight months creating the VR recreation of Nayeon, reports PC Gamer.

In the documentary clip linked above, viewers were able to witness the emotional moment when Ji-sung was reunited with her

rendered daughter. The clip is around ten-minutes long, with the majority of it showing Ji-sung having a picnic in the park with Nayeon.

the quoting system on GFAQS keeps locking up my browser so that's the best I can do for linking the words to the article
https://www.ign.com/articles/mother-plays-with-deceased-daughter-in-vr-recreation?sf117258073=1

Seems kinda unhealthy

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Ye I don't think that is a good idea.

this was an episode of Black Mirror

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i'd not just argue it's a perfectly healthy coping mechanism, but also that as technology advances, it will become more widespread and sophisticated

perhaps a day will come when we will be able to interact with deceased loved ones over VR whose entire minds have been uploaded to a computer

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There's a Black Mirror episode about this.

It's called Be Right Back.

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I dont want to see a vr recreation of any of my deceased loved ones and would never give permission if i had a say in it.

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TheMikh posted...

i'd not just argue it's a perfectly healthy coping mechanism, but also that as technology advances, it will become more widespread and sophisticated

perhaps a day will come when we will be able to interact with deceased loved ones over VR whose entire minds have been uploaded to a computer

Or copy mind of a lover before they broke up with you and just date them in vr as the real them moves on

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TheMikh posted...

i'd not just argue it's a perfectly healthy coping mechanism, but also that as technology advances, it will become more widespread and sophisticated

perhaps a day will come when we will be able to interact with deceased loved ones over VR whose entire minds have been uploaded to a computer

There will be another wave of blaming video games for violence as they say they dont see any real consequence because they can just remake them in VR.

This is stupid but theyve blamed video games for violence forever and this would only fuel it more so.

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darkphoenix181 posted...

Or copy mind of a lover before they broke up with you and just date them in vr as the real them moves on

too much potential for real world cognitive dissonance - that i would argue is genuinely unhealthy

if that was a technological reality though, why not go with an entire harem of cyberwaifus with optimized personalities and looks

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I find the idea very disturbing.

Superlinkbro posted...

unhealthy

Imagine doing this and suddenly your dead kid's face goes all AC Unity on you


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Shablagoo posted...

interesting ethical dilemma, not sure how to address it

LordMarshal posted...

i can't disagree about that probability, people raise all kinds of frivolous stinks about things

probably best to ignore them like reasonable folk ignore video game critics for the most part

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darkphoenix181 posted...

Or copy mind of a lover before they broke up with you and just date them in vr as the real them moves on

That's depressing.

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TheMikh posted...

too much potential for real world cognitive dissonance - that i would argue is genuinely unhealthy

if that was a technological reality though, why not go with an entire harem of cyberwaifus with optimized personalities and looks

I mean, people probably buy Tswift, Scarjo, etc.

I think that would make me feel even worse.

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darkphoenix181 posted...

I mean, people probably buy Tswift, Scarjo, etc.

while it can be argued that is unhealthy as well, there's implicit understanding that public figures are not "real" in the sense that they are not physically present actors in the day-to-day lives of average people and will almost certainly never be met in person

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TheMikh posted...

while it can be argued that is unhealthy as well, there's implicit understanding that public figures are not "real" in the sense that they are not physically present actors in the day-to-day lives of average people and will almost certainly never be met in person

Having a VR swift who tucks you in bed at night is aok?

darkphoenix181 posted...

Having a VR swift who tucks you in bed at night is aok?

it's an ethical issue, the debate of which is comparable to the debate on the ethics of deepfakes

but personally i wouldn't say no to being tucked into bed by christina hendricks

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eston posted...

Imagine doing this and suddenly your dead kid's face goes all AC Unity on you

Lmao

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Does this seem super fucked up and unhealthy to anyone else?

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I really dont want VR to get so advanced that you can actually live in it but Im certain it will happen one day, and that is not a good thing for this world.

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Superlinkbro posted...

Lmao

yo that made me spit out my vodka espresso kombucha vomit

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Huh, interesting.
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