Exhausted by wedding party politics? Digital matrimony may be the solution.
Anyone who has planned a wedding knows the effort involved. Choosing a venue, whittling down the guestlist, writing vows, picking a colour scheme … the to-do list goes on. Remarkably, for Cardiff couple Martin Shervington and Elisa Evans, who are holding their ceremony in virtual reality in May, the list looks much the same – that is, if you don’t count the two robot avatars they’ve chosen to represent themselves as they say their vows, one pink and one blue.
The wedding will take place at a virtual nightclub called the Spire, complete with a red mottled sky and lava lake. Shervington and Evans have invited 150 of their friends and family to attend – many of whom wouldn’t have been able to make it to a real-life wedding in Cardiff.
More and more couples are hiring companies to record their big day using 360-degree video, but a ceremony in virtual reality has only happened once before. In 1994, a San Francisco couple, Monika and Hugh Jo, were married on the island of Atlantis. The software required reportedly would have cost $1m (£820,000), but was covered by the VR company Monika worked for, CyberMind.
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Source: The Guardian