Phones for urns: Hong Kong turns to virtual reality to honour ancestors


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 22 Nov 2017

Anthony Yuen, CEO of iVeneration.com, demonstrates an augmented reality graveyard at his office in Hong Kong, China, November 13, 2017. Picture taken November 13, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

HONG KONG: A lack of space for cemeteries in crowded Hong Kong clashes with the age-old Chinese tradition of reverence for one’s ancestors. 

But one entrepreneur uses virtual reality software to reconcile the two, allowing people to honour Confucian traditions of filial obligation in the territory where it can cost up to US$130,000 (RM537,849) to store the ashes of loved ones. 

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