The afterlife, the other world, the symbolic place of death, exists. Maybe not in reality, but certainly today through this virtual simulation. An equally unique and remote universe from the image that exists in many cultures, but ultimately less ethereal and even accessible with a virtual reality viewer and sensors to be applied to the body.
This is the story! In 2016, a woman from South Korea lost Nayeon, her seven-year-old daughter, to an incurable illness. A painful farewell that only parents who lose a child can understand ... Today, four years later, technology is no longer that of 2016. Virtual reality has evolved, as well as all the infrastructure and software that make up the digital world. And it was through virtual reality that the woman was able to "meet" her daughter, or more precisely, her faithful electronic reproduction, in a simulated world made specifically for a television documentary entitled "I Met You", realized by Munhwa Broadcasting.
You see something in the documentary that has never been seen before. Mum wearing a virtual helmet and handheld sensors and enters a digital world that reproduces a serene countryside landscape with lawns and trees. In which suddenly appears the girl, animated in 3D, a pattern recreated in Nayeon's images with repetitive movements capturing the movement of a child digitally, as done in cinema and video games. And something extraordinary happens there. Mum starts interacting with the dead girl, of course with all the limits of current virtual reality, but also with all the possibilities this technology offers today, that is, in a very faithful way to recreate a realistic environment and characters.
A miracle qualifies today and ranks in the category of outstanding technological achievements.
