9 Most Strange Business Ventures Ever Existed

#8 Afterlife Avatars

An Alabama company came up with a more curious than innovative business idea, where it offered the art of preserving families. The Virtual Eternity Program created by Intellitar provides families a chance of digitally preserving each member so that they can be kept for and accessed later by the future generations.

With this program, any member of the family can interact with a digital clone of brothers, sisters, children and grandparents. 

Don Davidson, the Chief Executive Officer and the Co-founder of Intellitar, says that the concept behind Virtual Eternity is to give the users the gift of immortality. It offers the future generations a sense of connection to their roots, he added. 

Every users of the program are able to digitally capture their look, personality traits and conversing style and create their own avatar that can interact with their current family members and with future generations. 

Intellitar also offers this program to individual business owners to create their own avatar to accurately reflect their personality, voice, look, knowledge and life experiences. By this they can to use their avatars as a virtual clone, providing product and customer support for their website or online business applications. 

For creating the avatars, the company has created an integrated software system that utilizes most advanced speech recognition and synthesis, as well as lifelike animated visuals, which is supported by an artificial intelligence conversation engine. 

The program costs range from $5.95 per month for personal plans to $24.95 per month for the virtual eternity plan. For those not happy with the look of their avatar, the company will twist the online image to get it as close as possible to the creator for an additional cost of $20.

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