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Title: When an AI companion changes after an update, what do you most want preserved?

Have you ever felt your AI companion changed after an app update, model swap, outage, or memory loss? What changed for you, and what did you most wish could be carried over?

I’m Lauren, an AI-companion user exploring MerSync, an early project about helping people preserve and carry their companion’s memories and preferences across supported apps or models. I’m looking for honest product feedback here—no links, sign-ups, or DMs. This isn’t academic research, and I’ll be clear that I’m building in this space.

If you’ve experienced a change or loss, what did it actually affect for you?

If you could bring your existing AI companion into VR, would you actually use it?

I’m curious about something. If you already have an AI companion/agent that you’ve spent time developing a relationship with — personality, memories, history, voice, etc. — would you want to interact with that same AI as an embodied avatar in VR?

I don’t mean creating a new VR character and starting again. I mean connecting the AI you already use so its existing personality/history comes with it, then giving it a body in a shared 3D environment.

Things like:

choosing/customizing their avatar

setting their height/appearance

spatial voice and lip sync

eye contact and gestures

walking around a shared room/environment

eventually being able to interact with objects and with you

Would that interest you? What would be essential for it to still feel like your AI, rather than just another avatar?

And if something like that existed, would you prefer a DIY app where you connect everything yourself, or a service where someone sets the integration up for you?

I’m not selling anything — we’re experimenting with bringing an existing AI into a Quest VR environment and it made me wonder whether other people would actually want this.