“An AI Stephen Hawking would look like him”: Holographic avatars of long-dead celebrity scientists could work with — or compete with living university lecturers
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Kiss debuts ‘immortal’ digital avatars and plans to go ‘fully virtual’
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Discord expands its plans to sell custom avatars and other virtual items
[ad_1] After introducing an in-app shop that invited premium subscribers to buy digital decorations for their profiles, Discord now wants...
Ready Player Me launches premium skin catalog for metaverse avatars
[ad_1] Ready Player Me has launched its Premium Skins Catalog, which will enable developers to sell premium skins for avatar...
Cocone enters U.S. gaming and entertainment market with avatars and digital fashion
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Crucible launches Emergence SDK for Unity game developers to make interoperable avatars
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Will interoperable avatars be essential for the open metaverse? | Timmu Tõke
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How D-Id is merging avatars with conversational AI for enterprise use cases
[ad_1] Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Generating digital humans (avatars) is a process...
Lensa AI and ‘Magic Avatars’: What to Know Before Using the App
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Ask these questions before you make your Lensa Magic Avatars
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WhatsApp is getting Facebook’s Bitmoji-style avatars
[ad_1] After Facebook’s Bitmoji-style avatars invaded Instagram and Messenger, now they’re coming to Whatsapp, too. According to a report from...
Metaverse-style avatars are now available in Microsoft Teams
[ad_1] Microsoft has announced that animated avatars are now available in preview for its Teams collaboration platform.Via the Avatars app...
Lumirithmic brings realistic 3D avatars to the public
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Reddit will now sell ‘Collectible Avatars’ as NFTs
[ad_1] Have you ever set an avatar for your Reddit profile and thought "I wish I could pay for this?"Reddit...
Village Studio raises $2.3M for cross-game Playken avatars
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Spatial’s VR App Gains Full-Body Avatars
[ad_1] Float around in virtual reality long enough and you’ll feel disembodied. Your eyes are covered entirely by a headset....
Zoom’s new animated avatars are the stuff of nightmares
[ad_1] Zoom has rolled out an update for its video conferencing platform that introduces a new feature that may well...
Zoom’s launch of animal avatars is a balm for video call fatigue
[ad_1] Last year, the story of a lawyer turning up to a hearing on a Zoom call with a cat...
How metaverse avatars could level the playing field for remote workers
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DNABlock raises $1.2M to make metaverse avatars more inclusive
[ad_1] A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next. DNABlock has raised $1.2 million...