Project Elysium, a new app from Paranormal Games is close to creating a virtual reality that can do exactly that...
The body part is no problem. The trick is getting 'personality' inside the dead-guy-file. To do that, the yet-to-be-departed must first partake in a personality capture and possibly expose a few family secrets in the process.
The same technology will eventually let movie-makers hire dead actors in the same way. But would anyone still wanna pay to see Sylvester Stallone in Rocky XCIX in a hundred years?
