NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Sign language learners can access the platforms validated library of ASL signs to expand their vocabulary with the help of a 3D avatar that demonstrates signs and use an AI tool that analyzes webcam footage to receive real-time feedback on their signing.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Only in the current market can one wonder how a celebrity avatar startup that sells NFT accessories took so long to hit a unicorn valuation. Genies, an LA-based digital avatar startup, announced Tuesday that it had raised $150 million in funding from Silver Lake, with participation from Bond, NEA and Tamarack Global.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Pinterest definitely requires more subtly and creativity to build and maintain a following. Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. Their content is good. This list will be updated monthly as we all learn how to better use Pinterest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

At the core of the brand is the Nonprofit Organizations avatar which has been used consistently since then to build a visual brand across many social networks ( Facebook , Twitter , Pinterest , etc). That said, after eight years of building the Nonprofit Organizations brand around this avatar, it feels like I might need a change.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg’s lifelike 3D avatar | Meta. Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating the avatars in Facebook and Messenger, the company announced Monday. A look at Mark Zuckerberg’s avatar across Meta’s platforms. New 3D avatars on Instagram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

Add your logo or avatar to your images. In terms of branding, it’d be wise to add your logo or avatar to some of your photos. You’ll need a photo editing tool to drag and drop your logo or avatar onto your images, but the extra step is worth your time. One hashtag per pin is enough!

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Instead of swiping through profiles, SwoonMe’s idea is to use a combination of avatars and audio to encourage users to connect based on someone’s personality, not their appearance. To use the app, you take a selfie which SwoonMe converts into an avatar. As they communicate, their avatar will slowly unveil their real photo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 4, 2011

On Quora you have to be a person, but Facebook Questions uses your nonprofit’s Page and avatar as your Facebook Questions identity. Quora is great for professionals and those that want to spend time building their personal brand online, but I think Facebook’s decision to allow brands to use Questions was smart. Very smart.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The trials and tribulations that a giant company like Meta (née Facebook) has been facing in overcoming skepticism , creating user interest (let alone revenue) and building quality experiences for its all-in metaverse vision highlights just how much work lies ahead for any company working in mixed reality. Why videoconferencing?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

1) Your avatar is cropped, shrunk, blurry, or too small to make an impact. Your nonprofit’s avatar is the brand identity upon which your social media campaigns are built and resources should be allocated to ensure that it’s visually compelling and memorable. Build your boards slowly. Pinterest is like Twitter.

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The Verge

MARCH 22, 2022

Zoom will let you show up to your next meeting as a rabbit, fox, dog, or another type of animal, using its new Avatars feature that replaces you with a virtual character that copies your expressions, Memoji-style. update, will only let you become an animal at launch, but that new avatar options will be added in the future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. It’s for this reason that your avatar should be well-designed, not include text that is too small to read in the News Feed, or show any obvious errors in cropping.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

To build your online brand? Use a Square Version of Your Organization’s Logo as Your Avatar on Social Media Sites. It’s very important that you invest the time and resources needed to designing a visually distinct, square avatar that matches the overall branding of your nonprofit. To secure new volunteers? Learn Basic HTML.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Large companies and some nonprofits are spending as much as $50,000 to build and launch an a iPhone App. As an iPhone user, I personally would love to download the Apps of my favorite nonprofits and have their avatars displayed on my iPhone. Don’t start building your App until you have created an account. Very expensive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The best practice listed below are result of spending the last three years maintaining and building the Social Media for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. You’re attempting to build a community on LinkedIn, not to build your Facebook or Twitter community. Use a Horizontal Avatar. for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

After a supporter follows your nonprofit, your avatar is how they will mentally and visually connect your brand to your Instagram posts. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. It helps build your location page. 10) Study Facebook Business Suite.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 22, 2011

2) Title your Page and upload your nonprofit’s avatar, a page banner, and write a sidebar title and page description. They want to know there is a real person behind the avatar. Finally, it’s worth reiterating that Pages are entirely different from Venue Pages. It’s the antithesis of social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

One of the greatest obstacles to global online fundraising has been that there in no international database of verified NGOs upon which donation service providers can build online fundraising tools. A featured avatar and header image. NGO Global Directory is a unique service – especially for smaller NGOs from underserved regions.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Another honoree, HeyGen , launched a streaming avatar that enhances real-time interactions, creating more useful chatbots and tutors. Were building the TurboTax of shutting down. Products grow when they are actually good and they solve customer pain points, Yona says. Read more about SimpleClosure , honored as No.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Much of the popular social media advice in recent years is given by people whose expertise is based on building their own personal brand, not the brand of a nonprofit or business. It’s a strategy that works well for building a personal brand, but not for a nonprofit brand.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

In short, you have to be a real person on Google+ before you can use the community to build a brand for your nonprofit – just like Facebook. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

In short, you have to be a real person on Google+ before you can use the community to build a brand for your nonprofit – just like Facebook. Add your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google+ Profile picture. Upload your nonprofit’s avatar as one (or all five) of your featured profile photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Your nonprofit can create your own cause awareness day campaign or build one around those cause awareness days that already exist, such as Earth Day on April 22 ( #EarthDay) , International Youth Day ( #YouthDay ) on August 12, and World AIDS Day on December 1 ( #WorldAIDSDay ).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

According to Mozilla, the plan is to roll out additional tiers and reintroduce a free version in the future, along with kits to create custom spaces, avatar and identity options and integrations with existing collaboration tools. Mozilla’s forays into the metaverse have had been met with mixed results.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. The metaverse isn’t a single product one company can build alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

To tap this potential, your NGO, nonprofit, or charity needs to activate its social media presence before, during, and after #GivingTuesday to help build the movement and, in the process, raise awareness and funds for your organization and mission. Presented on September 27 via webinar, below are the notes and deck.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Add a your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your Google Profile picture. Even though Google Profiles must be individuals, you can still help brand your nonprofit by adding your nonprofit’s Twibbon/avatar to your profile picture: 5. Add Google’s +1 button to your desktop and mobile websites and blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

And while crypto investors are buying up avatars and digital swaths of land in hopes that a digital universe will spring up around these projects, it’s unclear which projects — if any — will stand the test of time. .” “We have enough money, we’re going to build out the AR stuff. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

million so far to do similar things, and is now launching the beta version of its Avatar product. Voximplant says its main offering is that developers can build AI-powered bots and connect them easily to chat and telephony, without building complex backend logic, through a combination of a no-code editor and conversational AI.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

billion Activision Blizzard acquisition as ‘building blocks’ for the metaverse. While such developments may not mean much outside of cartoonish avatars in business meetings and. Microsoft has previously demonstrated how it plans to bring the metaverse to businesses with its Mesh for Teams platform. The company also considers its $68.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

The idea is something in between a simple creation tool like Minecraft and a more advanced world-building platform, like Roblox. This prompted the idea of something of a middle ground for 3D design, where the process would be nearly as straightforward as it was in Minecraft, but the building unit wasn’t a single block.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

AI-generated profile pictures created by sites like ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com have some unique advantages when it comes to building fake online personas. Others, though, just use stolen avatars. AI-generated headshots are increasingly realistic. Take "Joseph Labba" here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

But if your nonprofit wants to build a recognizable brand on the Social Web and notice a significant increase in your website traffic and e-newsletter subscribers – thus also an increase in online donors, volunteers, and event attendees – then at the very least you need to hire a part-time social media manager.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I use it to call people to action to benefit a nonprofit/charity: Example Tweet: #CharityTuesday :: Add a “Cause&# Twibbon to your Twitter Avatar: [link]. It’s a great way to build partnerships and show appreciation. FollowFriday : This is probably the most popular, most commonly used hashtag on Twitter.

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