This Tamil Nadu couple will host their
Hogwarts-themed wedding reception in Metaverse. Full story here
Dinesh SP and Janaganandhini
Ramaswamy, who are both Potterheads, will tie the knot at Sivalingapuram
village in Krishnagiri district.
Dinesh SP and his fiance a software developer
Janaganandhini Ramaswamy will tie the knot on February 6.
In a first, a couple from Tamil Nadu
have something special planned for their big day. A project associate, in IIT
Madras, Dinesh SP and his fiance, a software developer Janaganandhini
Ramaswamy, are set to tie the knot on February 6 and later that day will host
their dream reception from their most liked location - Hogwarts castle. Their
reception venue will be the Hogwarts dining room, and in this first of its kind
reception, the couple will meet and greet their family and friends in a virtual
avatar in metaverse.
The couple, who are both Potterheads,
will tie the knot at Sivalingapuram village in Krishnagiri district.
Dinesh SP and Janaganandhini Ramaswamy.
In a post on social media, Dinesh
wrote, "I am into Blockchain, NFTs, and Crypto. I have planned to conduct
my reception in Metaverse, so it's going to be the first metaverse marriage
ASIA (India would like to give the metaverse experience to all. And moreover,
in this pandemic time, social distancing and overcrowding can be avoided via a
metaverse."
He also explained how
Janaganandhini's father, who passed away last April, would also be part of the
wedding. A realistic 3D virtual avatar of her father has been created in the
metaverse to attend the couple's marriage function.
The bride, Janaganandhini, was
excited about the reception and overjoyed to have her father's presence at the
wedding. "I had to ask him many times to understand this concept and even
now I am not sure how this will be. I am so happy that my father's virtual
avatar will be there for my wedding even though he wont be there physically. I
was shattered when he passed away, but now Dinesh is bringing him back
virtually for us," she told IndiaToday.in.
The virtual avatar of the bride Janaganandhini
Ramaswamy's late father.
Dinesh said, "It would be a new
way of the afterlife in metaverse, and I hope it will be a great event in
Metaverse for first timers in India. I have been collaborating with Vignesh
Selvaraj founder of TardiVerse Indian (Chennai) based startup, for this
project, they developed a metaverse based on Polygon Technology
Blockchain."
In the groom’s words, "Simply
put, a Metaverse is a digital space represented by digital representations of
people, places and things. In other words, it's a ‘digital world’ with real
people representing digital objects. In many ways, Microsoft Teams or Zoom is
already a form of a Metaverse. You are ‘there’ in the room, but you may be a
static image, an avatar, or a live video. So the Metaverse is a broader context
for ‘bringing people together’.”
The couple met through social media and fell in
love. After several hurdles they were finally able to convince the family. The
project of metaverse reception has been in work just for the last two weeks and
the couple will have a mock drill on Jan 22 to see how the concept goes.
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