Engineers and programmers from South Korea recreated the virtual image of the eight-year-old girl Nyon, who died of an incurable disease in 2016. They did this so that her grieving mother, Chan Ji Song, had the opportunity to play and say goodbye to her daughter. The moment of their meeting was shown in the documentary “I Met You” on MBC.
The developers spent about eight months to recreate in detail the image of Nyon and her voice in virtual reality. To do this, they used photos and videos from the family archive. The amusement park was chosen as the location for the meeting, where the girl was relaxing with her parents.
The creators of the virtual copy prescribed replicas for the girl so that she could have a simple dialogue with her mother and answer her questions. Zhi Sung herself was so amazed at what she saw that she started communication with the phrase “This is probably paradise.” After the conversation, the mother and a virtual copy of her daughter had a birthday party for the girl.
According to her mother, this meeting helped her understand that she needed to love Nyon more, and not just miss her, thereby only tormenting herself. She shared this on her blog, but was soon forced to close it because of an influx of visitors – in the morning after watching the program, more than 200 thousand people came to her page.
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