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Almost everyone longs to be reunited with deceased friends and family.

Now an app dubbed 'Project Elysium' claims to do just that by creating a 'personalised afterlife experience' with loved ones who have passed.

The technology, which is still under development, could be a step towards uploading memories and personalities into computers, allowing people to live on in virtual reality.

Almost everyone longs to be reunited with deceased friends and family. Now an app dubbed 'Project Elysium' claims to do just that by creating a 'personalised afterlife experience' with loved ones who have passed. The app's developers have yet to reveal exactly how the technology will work

Created by Australia-based Paranormal Games, the app's developers have yet to reveal exactly how the technology will work.

What little we do know comes from their Twitter account, which features a screenshot showing someone being transformed into a 3D model.

An accompanying caption says: 'Modelling my bestie and business partner Nick into Project Elysium. Our first demo will be personal to Nick.'

Dr Albert Rizzo, director of medical virtual reality at the University of Southern California said he believes potential users would have to send pictures and video of the deceased to the developer.

What little we do know comes from their Twitter account, which features a screenshot showing someone being transformed into a 3D model. An accompanying caption says: 'Modelling my bestie and business partner Nick into Project Elysium. Our first demo will be personal to Nick'

But the company may also need to harvest even more data so that they can construct the person's personality, mannerisms and movements.

'If I knew I had an incurable disease, maybe I would do a full body scan and have a digital replica created,' Dr Rizzo told DailyMail.com.

'And I would sit down for 20 hours and have people ask me questions about my life and what I think about different things.'

He says this can all be programmed into virtual reality to create a living record of someone that people can interact with using VR headsets such as Oculus Rift.

Many are divided over how this can impact a user's mental health.

Some argue that it can provide real comfort and support in times of grief, while others say it may prevent people from moving and living in reality.

COULD THIS CREEPY ROBOT BE THE ANSWER TO ETERNAL LIFE? 

Bina48 is a robotic head that uses a 'Mind Clone' of the memories, belief and feelings of a real person

It may be possible to live forever by uploading your memories, thoughts and personality onto a computer within the next ten or twenty years, according to a leading pioneer of the technology.

The technology, which is similar to that seen in the film Transcendence starring Johnny Depp, is being developed by entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt.

She has already created a disturbingly realistic robotic 'clone' of her wife Bina that she hopes will be a prototype for the technology.

The robot apparently shares the ideas and personality of Bina by creating a database of her memories, beliefs and thoughts, along with information taken from social media interactions and blogs she shares.

This allows the robot, called Bina48, to express opinions and interact in conversations like a real, living person.

Mrs Rothblatt, 60, an internet radio entrepreneur who lives as a transgender woman, believes the these 'Mind Clones' could eventually be used to help provide social interactions for people living alone and even help recreate the personalities of people after they have died.

'I think helping people to confront difficult emotional challenges done in a safe environment is a positive thing,' said Dr Rizzo.

'When people avoid processing things, this is when it comes back and haunts them.'

'I don't think there is any disrespect to the dead to want to view them and interact with them,' he added.

Project Elysium has been entered into the upcoming Oculus VR Jam 2015.

To be eligible for the jam's grand prize, it has to showcase more screenshots by April 27, followed by video footage the week after to be eligible for the jam's grand prize.

The grand prize winner in this track will receive $100,000, with runner ups earning $50,000, $30,000 and $10,000 respectively.

'You can experience anything that's possible and anything that's impossible,' Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey told GamesBeat.

'It puts you into a difference space where there's almost no rules.'

Project Elysium has been entered into the upcoming Oculus VR Jam 2015. To be eligible for the jam's grand prize, it has to showcase more screenshots by April 27, followed by video footage the week after to be eligible for the jam's grand prize. Pictured on the right is an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset