India: Bride’s dead father and 5,000 guests to attend Harry Potter-themed metaverse wedding
- Dinesh S.P. and his fiancé Janaganandhini Ramaswamy, both 24, will be the first Indians to celebrate their marriage in the 3D virtual world
- The bride’s late father will join as an avatar, while many famous people hope to attend too, contacting the groom asking to be invited
A couple from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu are to become the first Indian couple to celebrate their nuptials on the online metaverse, a network of interconnected 3D virtual worlds.
Their digital wedding reception on February 6 is to be attended by 5,000 of their friends, colleagues and relatives from four continents with the bride’s late father ‘attending’ as an avatar and film stars and politicians scrambling to be invited.
And if that is all not unusual enough already, the whole thing will be Harry Potter-themed.
Software professionals Dinesh S.P. and his fiancé Janaganandhini Ramaswamy, both 24, will enter the virtual set-up by logging in through a website link. This will take them to the dining room of Hogwarts castle from author J.K. Rowling’s world-famous wizarding world.
Digital avatars of the bride and the groom will wear black jackets and be positioned against the backdrop of the iconic building.
The online event will be handled by TardiVerse Metaverse, a Chennai-based start-up, and cost roughly US$4,000.