Afterlife Avatar
An Alabama company has taken the art of preserving your family to a whole new level.
Created by Intellitar, the Virtual Eternity Program gives families the chance to digitally create each member so they can be preserved in an interactive time capsule for future generations. With the program, families will have the opportunity to interact with a digital clone of brothers, sisters, children and grandparents.
Don Davidson, chief executive officer and co-founder of Intellitar, said the concept behind Virtual Eternity is to give users the gift of immortality, while offering future generations a sense of connection to their roots.
Users are able to digitally capture the look, personality traits and conversation style of each family member in their own avatar that can interact with their current family and with future generations.
Intellitar also offers a program that allows individual business owners to create their own avatar to accurately reflect their personality, voice, look, knowledge and life experiences. Businesses are able to use their avatars as a virtual clone, providing product and customer support for their website or online business applications.
To create the doppelganger avatars, the company has created an integrated software system that utilizes state-of-the-art speech recognition and synthesis, as well as lifelike animated visuals, all supported by an artificial intelligence conversation engine.
While Intellitar’s costs range from $5.95 per month for personal plans to $24.95 per month for the virtual eternity plan. For those not happy with the look of their avatar, Intellitar staff will tweak the online image to get it as close as possible to the creator for $20.
Very cool, and maybe slightly creepy.