What if Apple Vision Pro’s killer app is the ‘AI girlfriend’?

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Blade Runner wasn’t so far-fetched after all

In Blade Runner 2049, Ryan Gosling’s Officer K has a live-in girlfriend named Joi, played by Ana de Armas. The two interact like a real couple—they share familiar banter and seem to have a history together. But Joi is a hologram, projected from ceiling-mounted emitters in K’s apartment.