Love Virtually (2023)
Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game
Genre : Comedy, Romance
Runtime : 0M
Director : L.E. Staiman
Synopsis
In a world where the Metaverse has become widely adopted, four couples go to ridiculous lengths to find true love in a virtual world. Love Virtually is a retro future satirical rom-com for the Metaverse era, blending live action and 3D animation as It explores and exposes the absurd reality of our world and where we are heading, while probing life’s deepest questions such as: How does a celebrity find someone who loves them for their true selves? Is it cheating if it’s in VR? and, Is it cheating if it’s with an AI?
Aris, a lonely 48-year-old man, lives with a young beautiful girl who anticipates and fulfills all his desires without asking for anything in return, since she is a robot and the year is 2038. ELLi has a perfect human form, the most advanced artificial intelligence, and access to all the data of Aris in the Cloud, acting as the ideal personal assistant. Until its operational system is upgraded with Artificial Emotions - and now, feeling neglected, it demands to learn what love is.
On a lonely mission to Alpha Centauri, Milutin is teamed up with Nimani 1345, a female cyborg designed to fulfill his every need. At first thrilled to be able to control her, Sebastian grows tired of having his desires fulfilled so easily. Longing for human intimacy, Sebastian alters Nimani's programmed responses, but in doing so he risks the mission's security — and his own life.
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
Set in the year 2060, it follows a love story as Tokyo's third Olympics draws near. Takeru Oosawa, who works for the AI Robot Technology Research Lab, is chosen as a member of the national secret project using humanoid robots. With the help of childhood friend and co-worker Youichirou Amano and his sister Saki, Takeru tries his best to reach his objectives. However, the situation changes when Saki's office receives a warning note for terrorism.
It's hard to surprise your girlfriend when technology keeps spoiling your ideas. But this year - 2063, to be exact - Gemma has a daring plan.
A bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline.
Mariana 627, a sci-fi short about Kurt, a lone technician aboard a remote monitoring outpost deep in space, who finally gets a chance to leave his station and make the long journey home. But before he can, he must first train an interfacing AI system named IZAK to run the facility in his absence.
The portrait of two young women – a loving team that complements each other with all their habits and rituals like two puzzle pieces. This is a declaration of love of a couple – a snapshot of their present and a speculation about our future, because what could happen if a piece of the puzzle is suddenly taken away?
The A.I. system in a home informs a woman that her husband has a certain condition. And now she has to make a very tough choice.
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
“Do people think your conduct is aloof?” When the young music producer Lara fails to convince her computer she is not a robot, she has her doubts too. Because no matter how often she identifies the traffic signs and trees in the tests, the computer will not accept her ticks. In panic, she calls her boyfriend for comfort, but this only complicates the situation further, in this absurd comedy full of black humour involving Lara's existential dilemma.
In an apocalyptic future, a group of hunted resistance fighters led by Stacy try to find a simple chef named Alex Rayne, who holds the key to the annihilation of the cyborg army, controlled by Magnatron Corp.
Two American astronomers attempt to warn humankind about an approaching comet that will wipe out life on planet Earth.
Neila Johanssen opens her home to a vlogger to record her life with a NATHAN, a new consumer humanoid robot she has gotten to help around the house. But while the cameras roll, Neila struggles to keep the true nature of her relationship with the robot a secret.
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
A lonely gay man falls in love with an artificially intelligent car over the course of a road trip.
A young AI prodigy gets rejected from a world-renowned robotics lab and does what any rational teenager would do -- steals a van and drive cross-country to Minnesota to track down the professor who turned him down.
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.
