A Virtual Girlfriend In The Real World
A rather enterprising, probably girlfriend-less, NYU grad student has come up with a solution for loneliness he called InBed says NYMag.
The way it works, is quite simple - using an “infrared sensitive” light projection, which reacts based on an infrared senser, an image of a woman is projected onto the mattress, which in turn responds to your every move. Lie on your back, she snuggles up right next to you in a log position. Curl up in the fetal position, she spoons. The only hitch: She’s 2-D. “Yeah, you can’t feel the girl. That’s the thing,” says the inventor, Drew Burrows.
Make the slightly intimate advance, and she rolls over and buries her face in the pillow. And yes, she stays fully clothed at all times.
Started as an interactive installation, it compares the feelings of coming home to an empty bed versus coming home to a bed with someone in it asleep but happy that you are joining them. These two situations are profoundly different and the installation invites a viewer to experience and consider the emotions associated with both.
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