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.
Why This Trend Is Growing
- Virtual Reality Parenting
- Virtual reality technology is revolutionizing the way parenting skills are learned and tested.
- VR Childcare Training
- Virtual reality can be used as a tool to train childcare providers and nannies.
- Emotional Response VR
- Virtual reality is capable of eliciting an emotional response to otherwise anonymous objects.
Industries Being Reshaped
- Education
- The education industry can utilize VR technology to teach parenting skills in a more engaging and interactive way.
- Childcare
- The childcare industry can use VR to train and assess the skills of nannies and other child caretakers.
- Technology
- The technology industry can continue to innovate in the field of virtual reality and expand its use in unexpected and groundbreaking ways.
