TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Avatar startups have come and gone over the past few years, but the future that many of the entrepreneurs behind them originally imagined has proven more or less accurate. Facemoji is building a plug-and-play tech platform to help game and app developers put avatar systems into their apps with the startup’s SDK.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Launched in June 2024, the commercial follows Halfdan, an indifferent native Oslovian as he shows a camera crew around the city, questioning whether it is even a city, and lamenting the areas walkability and beach access. He also finds fault in the citys public amenities as he sullenly gazes out at beautiful landscapes.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 18, 2023

Rehg Improving Image Recognition by Retrieving from Web-Scale Image-Text Data Ahmet Iscen , Alireza Fathi , Cordelia Schmid JacobiNeRF: NeRF Shaping with Mutual Information Gradients Xiaomeng Xu, Yanchao Yang, Kaichun Mo, Boxiao Pan, Li Yi, Leonidas Guibas Learning Personalized High Quality Volumetric Head Avatars from Monocular RGB Videos Ziqian Bai*, (..)

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The state of the art in VR still requires thousands of dollars of PC gaming hardware, with plenty of drawbacks (like requiring a tethered headset and graphics that still don’t measure up to what 2021’s best flatscreen games can offer). On the one hand, the statement here is almost laughably obvious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

My 10-year-old chatting with her grandma while they both draw in the Glow’s art program. A 720p camera sits above the screen to capture the child and their actions, and a 10-watt speaker sits below it. inch touch-sensitive projection screen onto a specially designed white mat where IR sensors and a second camera enable interaction.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Speaking to The Verge , the hoaxers say their imitation Volkov was created using effects no more sophisticated than makeup and artfully obscure camera angles. They did so by cold-calling and emailing their targets from fake addresses, using a real picture of Volkov as their digital avatar. The case of the fake deepfake.

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