The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

With live, in-person events almost entirely canceled across the globe, artists have been searching for new ways to connect with fans. That could mean a skyscraper-sized cyborg version of Travis Scott stomping around Fortnite ’s island or a ghostly CG-animated avatar of The Weeknd performing in TikTok. Things have started slowly.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Lastly, the system allows for new “Voice Avatars” to be created based on existing voice talent, like a trusted company spokesperson or voiceover artist. The company is strictly business-focused right now, which is to say there’s no user-facing app to digitize your voice into an avatar or anything.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

AmazeVR , a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists’ VR concerts through content generation tools, announced today it has secured $15 million, which was oversubscribed within three weeks. . Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The Music Locker has also secured iconic names in DJing like Detroit-based producer Moodymann and Berlin collective Keinemusik to be its first artists in residence, each seemingly getting their own custom GTA Online avatars. The open-world crime series has always secured high-profile artists for its in-game radio stations.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This sort of larger-than-life, impossibly elaborate staging is one of the advantages of performing inside of Roblox — the hit kids game — where Lil Nas X will become the first major artist to use the platform for a fully virtual concert this week. “I Then on Saturday afternoon, Lil Nas X’s avatar will finally perform. Photo: Roblox.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), It is clearly not a fad, and yet the vast majority of nonprofits have zero budgets for social media. and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ).

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

The 3D modeling software is like a set of tools to make 3D assets, Hwang explained, adding that users can make any kinds of 3D assets like buildings, props, items, and avatars using the 3D modeling software tools. Most Unity engine users like programmers, game designers and visual effects (VFX) artists need to make 3D assets.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Instead, Spatial is focusing on collaborations with artists who want to show off their NFT projects. They can then place the images into gallery spaces like virtual paintings, letting guests mill around and talk to each other with avatars or live videos that float above the avatars’ heads.

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Wild Apricot

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Even more so since we are lucky to have a great artist on our team, Denis Fokin, who is not easily stupefied, even when ask him things like, "Can you please create an avatar for Jim, Fluid Apricot?" or "Can you come up with a play on the Wild Apricot logo with some Thanksgiving flavor?", not mentioning easy things.( read more ).

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Fittingly, the debut installation was created by LaTurbo Avedon , an artist and curator who also happens to be a digital avatar. The MIF has also commissioned virtual works from the likes of American game developer ( and professor ) Robert Yang, British Nigerian filmmaker Jenn Nkiru, and British artist Tai Shani.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

The company had raised over $2 billion by promising incredible hardware that would open up a new artistic medium — the first plausible avatar for the long-held dream of mixed reality. The dream of mixed reality is on life support In 2016, Magic Leap looked like it would change the world.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A virtual Ed avatar?) With the event, Niantic appears to be attempting to follow in the footsteps of Epic Games, which has offered a number of in-game music events in Fortnite over the years from artists like Travis Scott and Ariana Grande. isn’t at all clear. In-game events like these are big business for Niantic.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Meanwhile, startups like Wave raised huge bouts of VC funding to turn real performers into digital avatars in a bid to create more digital-native concerts. And while some smaller artists embraced shows over Zoom or worked with startups like Oda who created live concert subscriptions, there were few mainstream hits among bigger acts.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

After BuzzFeed ’s article was posted, the two later responded to the situation with the “Web2 me vs. Web3 me” meme on Twitter, in which you essentially compare a photo of yourself in the real world with an NFT or avatar that’s supposed to represent you in the metaverse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2007

Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. " Without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas. As she announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The R&B artist thanked Medici for helping him purchase a CryptoPunk earlier this month, but today’s (possible) reveal raises the question: did Derulo look to Medici because they were prominent in the NFT space, or did he know it was actually one of his peers ? Hey, wait, isn’t that Snoop’s Twitter avatar? By George it is!

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Verge senior reporter Ashley Carman returns to the show to discuss Spotify’s big event this week announcing its plans for helping podcasters and artists make money, Twitter’s new substantial product features like the all-new Super Follow, and The Verge ’s Apple Fitness Plus review. Paramount Plus is proof we’ve hit peak streaming.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Their ability to turn text descriptions into artistic images attracted casual users to create amazing images that went viral on social media. It created the 530-billion parameter Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model ( MT-NLG ) that powers TJ, the Toy Jensen avatar that gave part of the keynote at NVIDIA GTC last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Kranky Series One 14 iconic street artists. Unlike most of the dime-a-dozen NFT projects churning out digital avatars, Superplastic developed its characters and fictional universe up front rather than tacking it on (or promising to tack it on ) after cashing in on the speculative craze driving astronomical prices on OpenSea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

In fact, Snapchat is giving rise to anew type of artist – the Snapchat artist. To gain new Snapchat Friends, you can use your new Snapcode as an avatar on social networks (rotate one week and one week off). Promote your Snapcode and share your Snapchat Username on multiple communication channels.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its also a clear evolution of Yetis ambitions with film as well as a signal that brands can push themselves artistically with the right amount of creative courage. Current F1 driver Logan Sargeant raced against the virtual avatars of Williams Racing legends like Mario Andretti, Alain Prost, and Jacques Villeneuve.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

To demonstrate how enthusiasts and developers can use NIM to build AI agents and assistants, NVIDIA previewed Project R2X, a vision-enabled PC avatar that can put information at a users fingertips, assist with desktop apps and video conference calls, read and summarize documents, and more. Sign up for Project R2X updates.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

After all, life is already full of digital mirrors — of avatars and social media feeds that are supposed to embody “you” in various forms — so why not add a speaking automaton to the mix? I had no idea that this deeply personal thing — my voice — could be copied by technology so quickly and easily.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

One of the most popular fantasy models is the blue Na’vi alien from the film Avatar. It was an Avatar reborn Facebook ad that first drew Rachel, who wishes to only be mentioned by her first name, into the fantasy reborn world. “I Many dolls are made to fit preemie, newborn, or even Build-a-Bear clothes. Image: Rachel.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Avatar - Square image up to 700k, consistently branded. This can range from somewhat bland one color background to something very artistic. Make sure that your organization is using its name, or a commonly used nickname/acronym. You can list your full organization name in the bio section, allowing people to search for you.

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The Verge

AUGUST 26, 2021

So they scrapped the project, and teamed up with Evan Luza and artist Colin Egan on something different: Cool Cats , a generative NFT project that planned to make 9,999 cartoon cats. They called the project Faticorns , generated 10,000 of the creatures, and put them all on sale. Only one sold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2008

Last December, Susan Reynolds , an artist and social media maven, was diagnosed with Breast cancer. She announced on her blog, " I use Twitter to fight Cancer " and without any formal blogger relations campaign, well-known and influential bloggers blogged about her situation and changed their avatars to include peas.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Having a physical avatar for these visits makes a huge psychological difference, staff tell The Verge. Image: Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Phoenix Children’s Hospital uses telepresence robots to let special visitors spend time with children on the ward.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Artist: William Joel. They did so by cold-calling and emailing their targets from fake addresses, using a real picture of Volkov as their digital avatar. Deepfakes use AI techniques to generate or manipulate videos and pictures. As proof, the pair shared some of this correspondence with The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. See the flickr pool of pea avatar photos. It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Games for Social Change gaming and libraries was recently published and the author is the Shifted Librarian and My Avatar Wears Tight Jeans and 4 Other Things I learned from Internet Librarian 2006 is worth the read from Michael Stephens. Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. For example: We worked with a local psychologist to create an implicit associations-based game called "Smart, Hot, Honest or Not?" as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Lensa AI goes viral : Do all of your social media friends suddenly have avatars that make them look like sci-fi gods and action heroes? It’s probably because of Lensa AI, a photo editing app that went viral this week after adding support for Stable Diffusion’s AI-generated art tools. TechCrunch+.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

On Sunday, April 18th, from noon to 8PM ET, there will be an online event with speakers and presentations from politicians, artists, and activists such as Elizabeth Warren, Kyra Sedgwick, Rosdely Ciprian, and Marc Yaggi, exploring a variety of environmental issues. National Geographic’s Earth Day Eve 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Manna
 Co-creating fantastic lifelike avatar media like games, quests, cinema, shows, webcasts, social and business events in a 3D/AR/VR ecosystem. Voices of Ukraine’ ‘Voices of Ukraine’ presents multilingual readings of Ukrainian poetry and drama by artists and performers affected by the Russian invasion.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

When we think of the metaverse, popularly depicted as a game-like virtual environment where humans use avatars to live, work, and play, we’re often the main characters. Digital people running on Soul Machines’ dystopian-sounding Humans OS 2.0 can use their hands and will one day be able to use full-body motions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about Airtable, Plaid and all your darn AI avatars. All your AI avatars. My new flex is that I don’t have an AI avatar, and I’m only a little insecure about it! The company behind these magic avatars is Lensa AI, which has unsurprisingly been climbing up the app store.

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