Today’s journey takes us to San Diego, California.  Date, the not-so-distant future.  A world where technology has made artificial intelligence perfect and cheap but humanoid robots are still imperfect and expensive.  What happens, then, when a human inevitably falls in love with an AI and the time comes for them to meet IRL?  

That’s where companies like VirtuaMate create opportunity—cultivating a database of human analogs, willing participants, catalogued to match the digital appearance of your AI love... and temporarily channeling them for your date night. 

The result? A love triangle… between desire, delusion… and the Gray Line.