Gatebox, when a Virtual Personal Assistant becomes Waifu

Japan is a strange country but impressed me. When Google, Apple and Microsoft are competing to make personal assistant and home assistant professional, Gatebox, companies from Japan to make virtual wife. Yes, virtual robot in a tube will give attention like a wife. Wait .. what !? Do not believe? Here's the video:

I am confused about what to enter this category as a personal assistant, or home assistant. In fact I'm not sure again this Gatebox assistant or not. But fortunately giddy sense has been missed after Gatebox site is available in English. Gatebox is a Virtual Home Robot. So the virtual robot that is projected in a tube. This robot will help keep the house, turn on electronic devices, like a home assistant from Google. The tube itself has various sensors that detect environmental conditions, can even know when you got home. You can also project the MMD Vocaloid in this tube via an HDMI cable.

But what makes it different is the character of the robot. Instead of the virtual assistant is a bit stiff, Gatebox is even paying attention as household wife. Yes, when Google Assistant, Siri and Cortana always rejected love, the Gatebox it even gives a sense that to you. Waiting for you to go home, say hello, do not forget to talk even say good night. You can choose different characters. However, currently only available one, Azuma Hikari.

This is real? Not just a concept? Yes, really. Gatebox been developed since the beginning of this year and could be in the pre-order starting today. But the price offered is very fantastic, 298.000 yen, or about 2546.90 USD . Hmm, the price that we also get to know the cost for proposing to build a household robot yes. Perhaps this is the price to pay an acute singles that already occurs.

Well what do you think? Again a tool that not interesting? When other personal assistant when we praise on his knowledge to say thank you, might Hikari-chan is even answered "Nandemo shiranaiwa wa yo. Shitteru koto dake" (I do not know everything, I just happen to know about it).