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Mark Zuckerberg says realistic avatars are Facebook’s next big VR bet

The Verge

Facebook’s future virtual reality headsets should capture users’ facial expressions for more realistic digital avatars, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg. You want to make sure that the device has all the sensors to animate realistic avatars.”. Zuckerberg says hardware changes are a major focus for avatar-building.

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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. Alternatively, there is TweetPhoto. Favstar.fm : Favstar.fm allows you to see the most favorited tweets across Twitter at any given time. It also allows you to track your own tweets to see who is favoriting them.

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Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club

The Verge

Digital marketplace OpenSea has banned the PHAYC and Phunky Ape Yacht Club (or PAYC) collections, both of which are based on the same gimmick: selling NFTs with mirrored but otherwise identical versions of high-priced Bored Ape Yacht Club avatars. Like other avatars, though, anybody can technically copy or modify the associated ape picture.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. Real-time 3D computer graphics and personalized avatars. Is using one avatar or item across different worlds as simple as it sounds?

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AVFormer: Injecting vision into frozen speech models for zero-shot AV-ASR

Google Research AI blog

AVATAR ), which investigates the contribution of entire visual frames, and not just the mouth region. We apply each phase just once, as an iterative application of alternating phases leads to performance degradation. Building audiovisual datasets for training AV-ASR models, however, is challenging.

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33 Must-Read Updates to Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It increases your generosity score and the exposure of your avatar in the Twitterverse and in the “Interactions” module and thus results in more new followers. Chapter 5 :: Use the Colors of Your Avatar to Design Your Channel. In the book I prioritize using old school retweets, but not any longer.

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HTC announces Vive Pro lip tracking module and new VR body trackers

The Verge

That could effectively translate most of a user’s face onto an avatar or into a motion capture system. They’ll potentially be competing with the upcoming Tundra Tracker — a smaller, SteamVR-based alternative that is expected to ship this summer. There’s also a new, third-generation version of HTC’s general purpose VR tracker.

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