If you're joining a video call via Microsoft Teams or Apple's FaceTime, and don't quite feel like showing your face, both companies provide users an option to use cartoony 3D avatars in their place.

Your Meta mini-me is about to get a makeover. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.), announced via Facebook post that the social media platform’s avatar feature will receive ...

Following backlash to Roblox's proposed pricing changes over the unification of 2D and 3D avatar assets, further adjustments ...

Forgot to shower? Don’t want to be on video? Microsoft’s 3D avatars can save the day — no camera needed. Forgot to shower? Don’t want to be on video? Microsoft’s 3D avatars can save the day — no ...

Line Next, a division of a messenger company with 200 million users, has launched a beta of AlphaCrewz, a 3D avatar customization platform with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). That’s a big endorsement for ...

Copresence, a maker of digital avatar generation software, has raised over $6 million in seed funding. The investment will accelerate the growth of Copresence and further the development of its tech ...

More than 70 percent of the platform's 280 million daily active users have a Bitmoji linked to their accounts. By J. Clara Chan Digital Media Writer Snapchat has refreshed its user profiles to now ...

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Tech giant Lenovo, alongside Innovations in Dementia, announced a proof-of-concept project dubbed Alzheimer's Intelligence, a photorealistic AI-enabled 3D avatar that converses with individuals with ...