VIRTUAL WIFE, JAPAN
Akihiko Kondo (35), a Tokyo school administrator, poses for a photograph with a doll modelled after VR singer Hatsune Miku at his apartment, wearing their wedding rings after marrying her hologram in Tokyo. Akihiko’s mother refused an invitation to her only son’s wedding. Gatebox, the company that produces the hologram device featuring Miku, has issued a ‘marriage certificate’, which certifies that a human and a virtual character have wed ‘beyond dimensions’