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Luxury Brand Valentino Launches Meta Avatar Clothing

Meta and Italian luxury brand Valentino have partnered to launch a new line of digital clothing on the company’s Avatar Store. When the Meta Avatars Store launched in late 2022, the company offered digital outfits from a number of luxury clothing brands, including Balenciaga, Prada and Thom Browne. Now the prestigious Roman fashion house is among them, bringing a […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

18. Juli 2023
Meta’s Next-gen Avatar Presentation Was Too Good to Be True… For Now at Least
This week Meta showed off a preview of its next-gen avatars during the Connect keynote. Frankly, they looked great! However, there’s… less than meets the eye here. When Mark Zuckerberg appeared in Horizon during the Connect 2022 keynote sporting a next-gen Meta avatar with complete body tracking I was frankly blown away. Compared to the existing […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

14. Oktober 2022
Ready Player Me Raises $56M to Expand Cross-game Avatar Platform
Ready Player Me, a company focused on bringing cross-platform avatars to VR and beyond, announced it’s closed a $56 million Series B round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from investors including Roblox co-founder David Baszucki, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, King Games co-founders Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi, sports and entertainment company […]

Road to VR & Scott Hayden

23. August 2022
Meta CEO Teases “Major graphics updates” After Viral Criticism of ‘Horizon Worlds’ Screenshot
An innocuous screenshot of Meta’s social VR platform shared by CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week saw widespread criticism in the tech sector. Prompted by the reaction, Zuckerberg shared a glimpse of purported visual upgrades headed to the platform. Last week Meta announced it had expanded its Horizon Worlds social VR platform to new territories (France & Spain). […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

22. August 2022
Epic’s MetaHuman Avatar Tool Can Now Import Scans of Real People… Maybe You One Day
Epic Games, the company that makes Unreal Engine, recently released a substantial update to its MetaHuman character creation tool which for the first time allows developers to import scans of real people for use in real-time applications. The improvements glimpse a future where anyone can easily bring a realistic digital version of themselves into VR […]

Road to VR & Ben Lang

6. Juli 2022
Prototype Meta Headset Includes Custom Silicon for Photorealistic Avatars on Standalone
Researchers at Meta Reality Labs have created a prototype VR headset with a custom-built accelerator chip specially designed to handle AI processing to make it possible to render the company’s photorealistic Codec Avatars on a standalone headset. Long before the company changed its name, Meta has been working on its Codec Avatars project which aims […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

4. Mai 2022
Find Virtual Love In The Metaverse With This Dating App

There are plenty of virtual fish in the sea. Nevermet is a new dating app aimed specifically at VR users looking for love in all the wrong virtual places. The concept is fairly simple. Users create a social profile with their preferred age and gender filters and swipe through other users in search of a […]

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VRScout & Kyle Melnick

1. März 2022
Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars
Wolf3D, the Estonian startup behind web-based avatar creator Ready Player Me, has closed a $13 million funding round. The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Ready Player Me studio Wolf3D […]

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Road to VR & Scott Hayden

3. Januar 2022
Oculus Begins Rolling Out New Avatars, Eventually Headed to Facebook, Messenger, & Instagram
Facebook is rolling out its latest avatars, Oculus Avatars 2.0, which it hopes will finally unify virtual identify across Oculus applications and Facebook products. In addition to becoming the default avatars for Facebook Horizon and being optionally integrated into Oculus games, Facebook also teased that the new avatars will eventually find their way to the Facebook […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

27. April 2021
LIV Now Supports Full-body Avatars from ReadyPlayerMe, Making it Easy to Stream VR Without a Green Screen
Many VR streamers use complicated mixed reality setups to show themselves from a third-person perspective inside the virtual world. LIV, a leading tool which makes this possible, now supports free, customizable, full-body avatars from ReadyPlayerMe, making it possible to stream your avatar inside of VR without the need for a green screen. In addition to […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

23. Januar 2021