Real Baby-Real Family is a VR App That Tests People's Parenting Skills
Ellen Smith — June 2, 2017 — Lifestyle
References: laval-virtual.org & fastcodesign
Real Baby-Real Family is a virtual reality app that features a crying baby participants must attempt to soothe. The app was designed for expecting parents or people considering having a child of their own.
Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology collaborated with the Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory to create the app, which places a tracking module on a doll that comes to life with the help of VR headsets. The app creates a face for the baby that resembles both you and your partners faces' to make for the most realistic of scenarios, while eliciting a more emotional response to an otherwise anonymous object.
Participants must sway, hug, burp, feed or change the crying baby in order to soothe it. Real Baby-Real Family speaks to an aging technologically apt generation that is preparing to have children through the virtual world they know so well.
Japan’s Kanagawa Institute of Technology collaborated with the Fujitsu Social Science Laboratory to create the app, which places a tracking module on a doll that comes to life with the help of VR headsets. The app creates a face for the baby that resembles both you and your partners faces' to make for the most realistic of scenarios, while eliciting a more emotional response to an otherwise anonymous object.
Participants must sway, hug, burp, feed or change the crying baby in order to soothe it. Real Baby-Real Family speaks to an aging technologically apt generation that is preparing to have children through the virtual world they know so well.
Trend Themes
1. Virtual Reality Parenting - Virtual reality technology is revolutionizing the way parenting skills are learned and tested.
2. VR Childcare Training - Virtual reality can be used as a tool to train childcare providers and nannies.
3. Emotional Response VR - Virtual reality is capable of eliciting an emotional response to otherwise anonymous objects.
Industry Implications
1. Education - The education industry can utilize VR technology to teach parenting skills in a more engaging and interactive way.
2. Childcare - The childcare industry can use VR to train and assess the skills of nannies and other child caretakers.
3. Technology - The technology industry can continue to innovate in the field of virtual reality and expand its use in unexpected and groundbreaking ways.
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