Waking Dead: Can you Make Dead People Live in the Metaverse?

With a combination of metaverse virtual reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence dead people can be back to life.

Imagine that you could see your late loved ones again. The longing to reconnect with the people we've lost is as basic as breathing, so it's no surprise that designers and engineers have started exploring how we deal with death, and, as part of that bottomless topic, how to technologically reinvigorate the departed. There is a new culture arising between humans and machines. From virtual reality (VR) and metaverse to artificial intelligence (AI), advances in technology have spurred a series of initiatives offering different shades of virtual immortality in recent years. The digital afterlife — in the metaverse one can create avatars of dead people and bring them back to life (virtual life). But is it right and do we actually need this?

In many families, parents die before the marriage of a daughter or a son due to various reasons (Metaverse Wedding). But on the biggest day of life, everyone goes to bless their parents. But dead people cannot be brought back. But such a surprise happened in Tamil Nadu. Dinesh SP of Tamil Nadu and Janaganandini arranged a fancy wedding on February 8 with a mix of family tradition and technology. Courtesy 'Metaverse'. The dead father also blessed the daughter-in-law. That marriage is now strongly practiced. This is the first time in India that several social festivals have been organized on Metaverse in western countries.

How is that possible? With the help of possible technology. This technology has given people a platform to transcend these restrictions and engage loved ones on this special day. The metaverse is a kind of virtual world. With this state-of-the-art technology, users will be able to enter the digital world through virtual identity (Metaverse Wedding). In this virtual space, people will also get the opportunity to hang out, shop, and hang out with friends. A combination of metaverse augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence. It is also possible to cover dead people here. And this is what Dinesh has done.

It's not a distant future, it's a present reality

A wide variety of new developments can be observed that make use of these hopes, which are essentially as old as humanity, and yet come in a new guise. What might have sounded like science fiction material only a short while ago is already a reality today with Kanye West gifting Kim Kardashian a hologram of her late father for her 40th birthday — something that everyone can achieve thanks to providers such as the Dutch company Holo.

In February, a South Korean broadcaster aired a tearful reunion between a mother and her deceased 7-year-old daughter who was recreated through VR as a digital avatar modeled upon a child actor using photos and memories from her mother.

Other companies have been looking at social media as a source of information to create chatbots that could impersonate us after we are gone.

ETER9, a social network set up by Portuguese developer Henrique Jorge, pairs each user with an AI "counterpart" that learns to copy their online behavior and can post comments and content on their behalf – even after they are dead.

Replicas or continuations of consciousness?

It seems that we want to remember our dead exactly the way we experienced them while they were alive — which includes the internet. But what do we want for our own afterlives? Do we limit ourselves by trying to freeze ourselves for digital eternity? But aren't we much more than avatars or bots? So will the real question be around what the limitations of AI in creating our digital souls are?

As we experiment with increasingly sophisticated methods of digitally bringing the dead back to life, there are both risks and benefits, and the question remains how we reconcile our offline and online selves after we've passed.

Some of us will never be content with interacting with a memorial page, speaking into a void that never responds. Others will rage against the dying light and build magical and monstrous manifestations of the afterlife, refusing to let the dead stay dead. We believe that we will need to find a balance between digital recollection and emotional release.

And we believe we should not let our future be dictated by technology — instead, we should develop technology for the future we want to have. And for the way, we want to be remembered.

However, Zuckerberg said that everyone has to wait at least five years to get all the benefits of this metaverse. Because it will take so long for metaverse avatars to come into the mainstream of technology. When this technology is fully in hand, the whole country will change (Metaverse Wedding). Not just the return of dead people. You can also go on a virtual tour with friends.