🗣️ I made a hologram of my mum for her funeral: 'She had the final word' It might sound like a Black Mirror plot but Dr Stephen Smith used AI to allow his mother to speak at her own funeral
Smith says there was “complete silence” when his mother appeared at her funeral. “The air was completely sucked out of the room. Because of the method you look right into the camera and you’re life size. It felt like she was in the room and she was talking directly to you . It had a very powerful impact that wasn’t positive nor negative.”
This early iteration of the technology was very expensive and was closed off to the public. But when the holograms were put out to limited audiences, people requested that they be able to interview their family members and grandparents which gave the couple the idea of a new type of service. Smith has also been involved in curating interviews with public figures like Martin Luther King’s lawyer, Clarence Jones, and civil rights activists. “You can go and meet historical characters who are no longer alive and you will meet them full-sized holographically and you will converse with them as if they were there. They’re quite breath-taking,” explains Dr Smith.
“It’s going to be possible to create a conversation and an engagement with someone from the past if you have something to go off.”
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