When a gamer died of Covid-19 in 2020 ago, a number of players held a virtual funeral. Not on Zoom or Google Meet. But, in the Final Fantasy XIV game .
And the new trend that is developing is this: holding funeral processions in the virtual world of Metaverse
A group called Remember recently sold 5,000 virtual tombstones in the form of NFT (non-fungible tokens). They sell it on an NFT marketplace called OpenSea. According to Remember, “each Tombstone doubles as a key to a personal monument. In the monument stored memories of people who died. Starting from text, images, videos, sounds, 3D items, and more,".
Jae Lee from Remember said more than 500 tombstones had been sold. The price is not cheap either. That is USD800. Uniquely, the shape of the tombstone is not yet finished. This is because Remember is trying to use the proceeds from this sale to buy real estate assets on a number of metaverse platforms, including The Sandbox and Decentraland. It is hoped that Remember consumers will be able to get their virtual tombstones and graves by the end of 2022. And it turns out, Remember is not the only team that makes funerals in the metaverse. There's also The Solaghosts, which claims to be creating a metacemetery or metaverse grave. The concept is similar. Namely, selling virtual land to be bought and turned into an online graveyard.
These virtual burial ideas seem absurd. However, hologram company HereWeHolo is taking the concept of virtual funerals/deaths to another level by offering digital human-sized models for the dead.
The goal is to make it seem as if the living people can pray, or even speak directly to their deceased relatives. In fact, Kanye West once used the services of HereWeHolo to make a hologram of the late Robert Kardashian as a gift to Kim Kardashian
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