The metaverse makes way for Tamagotchi Kids

With just a small amount of digital money as a monthly subscription fees, you can raise your digital children in the metaverse, famous as the “Tamagotchi Kids” as well.

Apparently taken from an episode of the British TV series’ Black Mirror’, intelligence expert and previous British government Catriona Campbell, estimates that ‘ the world is now on its way’ to creating the Tamagotchi Generation.”

With these computer-created children, users can experience parenting in the metaverse via high-tech gloves and glasses which provide tactile feedback and a physical feel for hugging, feeding, and playing with their digital babies. In addition, CGI and machine learning enables the virtual child to recognize and respond to their parents through voice analysis and face tracking.

Internet users have different reactions to this issue, while some think that it solves the hot problems of population, infertility, and childlessness. Some are skeptical of this concept: “If you are not looking for full-time children, you can just turn off your child. “If your virtual child becomes a teenage monster, you can simply unsubscribe or ignore the child,” said Bharat Sharma, a technology journalist for IndiaTimes.

“You can skip childbirth and diapers,” said columnist Sam Salinger Morris, stating the positives of Tamagotchi babies. “Not to mention a severe insomnia.”

In a recently published book, Artificial Intelligence by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence, estimates that Tamagotchi kids will become popular in the next fifty years, because the demand for it has already started. A Proof of concept of virtual babies exists now – BabyX experiment, a New Zealand Soul Machine company which plans to humanize artificial intelligence to make interaction more attractive to the public.

Campbell suggested that one should not be confused with the namesake, the popular Japanese hand-held digital pets of the 1990s, Tamagotchi kids have no cost because they need minimal resources.

Campbell took broad worries about the environmental damage caused by the world’s growing population, in addition to rising childcare costs and rising infertility cases. She thinks that Tamagotchi children will be a popular alternative for parents to deal with the above issues.

In addition, enlarging it is cheaper, dirtier, more controllable, and does not even need to be enlarged, because if the child is tired of his current age, you can always press the reset button, which turns it into a “technological game-changer”. ‘