You Can Be Immortal, Talk to Beloved Dead in Metaverse

Somnium Space, a version of the metaverse world, introduced the ‘Live Forever’ mode through which you can become immortal and speak with your beloved ones even after they die.

Artur Sychov, CEO and founder of Somnium Space, came up with the idea after his father's death tragedy.

“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,” Sychov said.

“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.”

"They think that it's about selling NFTs and brands selling their stuff, but it's not about that,” he added. “It's much deeper.”

The first set of AI versions, in which people will be recreated as avatars with their movements and basic conversational abilities, will roll out by next year.

Moreover, the founder of Somnium Space stated that this other version of you can continue to evolve alongside artificial intelligence technology in the coming years, even if all the data was collected years ago.

“Let's say you die or someone dies,” he explained. “With the same amount of data we collected about you, with the progression of AI, we can recreate you better and better” over time.

In the same vein, he affirmed that “It's scary to have Facebook as the leading metaverse.”

Unlike Meta, Somnium Space doesn’t make money by selling people’s data to advertisers. “We are a decentralized world,” Sychov said. “We don't want to know your name. We don't care about who you are.”