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Credit to Author: Marissa Clifford| Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:30:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I stepped up to the Real Baby\u2014Real Family booth at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, I was handed a sanitary facial mask with a QR code that directed me to a survey. It was time to determine my virtual baby’s characteristics. <\/p>\n

In no time, I was answering very private\u2014and potentially problematic\u2014questions on a public screen: “Do you want children?” and “What is your preferred baby?” (By this, they meant “what race do you want your baby to be?”\u2014with black, white, and asian as the only options.)<\/p>\n

It’s a bit weird for sure, but Real Baby\u2014Real Family is at least an attempt to address a very serious problem. The birth rate in Japan is dropping<\/a>. And the gap between the elderly and the young is widening. <\/p>\n

The hope is that Real Baby might solve the declining birthrate. <\/p>\n

“The concept is that by seeing your own face on this child, a lot of authenticity is added to the experience,” Jeremy Kenisky, 2017 chair of Emerging Technologies at SIGGRAPH, told me. <\/p>\n

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