"It was really an experiment," said Marco Schmid, a theologian with the church. "We wanted to see and understand how people react to an AI Jesus. What would they talk with him about? Would there be interest in talking to him? We,re probably pioneers in this."
The installation, known as Deus in Machina, was launched in August as the latest initiative in a years-long collaboration with a local university research lab on immersive reality.
After projects that had experimented with Virtual and augmented reality, they decided that the next step was to install an avatar.
"We had a discussion about what kind of avatar it would be - a theologian, a person or a saint? But then we realised the best figure would be Jesus himself," Schmid said.
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