In 2018, Akihiko Kondu Became famous by marriage. Not because of wealth: he spent 2 million yen (about $ 17,000). Not for guests: about 40, including friends and family, though most did not attend. Nor because it is a particularly demanding undergraduate: or rather, because Married to a hologram. Strictly speaking, with 3D rendering Hatsune MikuJapanese artificial singer. She is one of the queens of pop in her country, but does not exist in physical form: a music synthesizer pet was born in 2007 and has since had a meteoric career as an artist. The creativity of many composers who took samples of the voice of another woman (Saku Fujita) to make her sing a hit hit hit.

Hatsune Miku is not the only singer created with the vocaloid program, but he is the one who defined the concept: he fills stadiums without existing ones; It is the absolute product of the record industry, which also sells stuffed animals, t-shirts, drawings and cartoons, and 2018 character holograms. With this hologram, Akihiko Kondo got married in 2018: a device called the GateBox vine-sized, which showed the character in three-dimensional form and allowed him to communicate with her.

Without connection

The first cloud in the relationship between Akihiko Kondo and his wife emerged a year later: the manufacturer has announced that by the end of 2020 this model, with which it is possible to interact, as it answers simple questions with pre-defined answers. Stop working and change to a more modern model. That did not happen, Condom told the Japanese newspaper Mainichi in January last year, as the company decided to cut the line of interactive holograms in March 2020 due to low demand for them (now it is creating a life-size version used by companies, hospitals and other institutions).

The version it has with Hatsune Miku is still interactive, but with much reduced features as it will depend on connecting to remote servers to make the interaction more diverse than it can handle. Kondo still greets his wife’s hologram when he wakes up in the morning or goes to work.

While saving distances, a similar thing happened in 2019, when the firm Jibo released servers that gave life to a home robot. “Maybe one day,” said Little Pocket, when he woke up, “when robots are much more developed than they are today, and everyone has them at home, you can tell me I’m welcome.”

Akihiko Condo told the New York Times a few weeks ago that he clearly realizes that his wife is not real and defines himself as Fictosexual, That is, a person who is attracted to a fictional character. And secure it Hatsune Miku’s love affair allowed him to overcome the bullying he had experienced all his life And the depression he experienced in the middle of the last decade, and that after marriage he was able to return to work in addition to his studies (in 2021 he began his legal studies to learn more about discrimination); Continues to live with a hologram and numerous dolls made in the image and likeness of Hatsune Miku; He even goes on excursions with one of them, life-size.