Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Hire a graphic designer to design a square avatar(s). Purchase a digital camera. Create a 6- × 6-inch hard copy of your nonprofit’s avatar for photo check ins, if applicable. Sign up for Google Alerts. Experiment with social media dashboards. Write social media and mobile technology policies. Purchase a smartphone and/or tablet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

on their Twitter avatars, and then spread them throughout the Twitterverse. 12seconds : 12seconds allows users to easily record videos with your laptop camera or cellphone, and then upload them to your 12 seconds video channel in order to easily post them to Twitter. Favstar.fm : Favstar.fm Alternatively, there is TweetPhoto.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2021

The camera app will magically open on the linked mobile device, where a scan can be taken as usual — no wires required. Background Music - Avatar. Camera Continuity isn’t a new feature, but its compatibility with the iPhone’s document scanner was news to me.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The 44-second clip Meta shared on Instagram over the weekend shows misshapen avatar characters sitting in a circle of chairs while discussing their breakups (because of Valentine's Day, apparently?) My ex broke up with me via text using emojis," one avatar says in the video while waving his arms around. "I

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TechNode

APRIL 23, 2024

An avatar of JD founder Richard Liu participated in its third livestreaming show on Monday as part of a promotional event for this years World Book Day. The e-commerce giant will reportedly offer free services to merchants to try avatar-based livestreams during 618.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

A newly released iOS app from Epic Games lets developers record facial expressions that can be imported directly into the Unreal Engine, using little more than an iPhone’s front-facing camera. It’s the same technology that powers Apple’s Animoji and Memoji , which map your facial expressions onto cartoon avatars. Image: Epic Games.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Passthrough VR” refers to a feature that displays a live video feed from a headset’s cameras, letting users see the real world while they’re still wearing the device. It’s useful for quickly dropping out of VR, and it can also enable a form of augmented reality by adding virtual objects to the camera feed.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Nvidia will use AI to make sure you’re always looking at your camera. Using AI, Maxine can realign callers’ faces and gazes so that they’re always looking directly at their camera, reduce the bandwidth requirement for video “down to one-tenth of the requirements of the H.264 Image: Nvidia. Not all of these features are new of course.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Then, after entering your height, weight, and body type, Amazon will create your custom avatar. The launch of Made for You follows Amazon’s discontinued Echo Look experiment that involved standalone cameras that offered fashion advice, and arrives just as the company’s $99.99

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI-powered digital avatar generator Miaoya Camera said on Wednesday it now offers a free experience for consumers to create personalized portraits after uploading a single headshot and a set of seven recent photographs, in a further attempt to expand its services to a wider user base. Miaoya, in Chinese ]

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

The software giant has been working on a new “Together Mode” for Teams ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and it’s designed to create a virtual live avatar of yourself that’s supposed to help you better engage with meetings. Microsoft is introducing some big updates to Microsoft Teams today. New dynamic view.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

This year at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show, MeetKai is launching several new platforms geared toward metaverse creators and users, including a way to digitize 3D spaces and buildings using any internet-connected device with a camera. ” Image Credits: MeetKai.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The functionality comes thanks to a partnership with Snap, who already offers similar filters natively in the Snapchat app, as well as with its Snap Camera software. Become your digital avatar, colorize your hair, interact with animated characters, and much more”. Now the functionality is included natively in the EpocCam app.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

.” AiFi’s “smart stores” are grocery stores, sport stadiums and convenience stores equipped with cameras that track what customers pick up and place in their carts, automatically charging their payment cards when they’re ready to check out.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

For the uninitiated, Miquela is essentially a digital avatar that started out as a CG influencer on Instagram and has since expanded into the world of music, releasing several singles and music videos since 2017. She’s part of a burgeoning field of digital influencers.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

There are, of course, other neat things you can do with eye-tracking (including creating more lifelike player avatars), but it’s currently unclear what Sony plans to do along those lines. Inside-out tracking typically uses cameras mounted on the outside of the headset itself to figure out where you are inside a room.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. Many people record live streams from a simple camera, such as the camera on a computer or mobile device. Largely, the quality of this live stream video will depend on the type of camera and equipment you are using. Audio Equipment.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amid the fluff, Meta showed an impressive demo of its Codec Avatars. Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro review: finally, more than just good cameras. Sony Xperia Pro-I: A camera first, phone second. Facebook teases ‘Project Cambria’ high-end VR / AR headset. Eight things we learned from the Facebook Papers.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

It uses two cameras and an infrared illuminator to record lip, cheek, and jaw movements and then translates that into virtual facial expressions. That could effectively translate most of a user’s face onto an avatar or into a motion capture system. Vive Facial Tracker attaches to the Vive Pro headset.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

ColorOS 12 is based on Android 12 and adopts its upgraded privacy tools, like adding a notification in the status bar when apps activate the camera or microphone. ColorOS 12 will first be available on a new “Photographer Edition” of Oppo’s excellent Find X3 Pro flagship phone.

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TechNode

AUGUST 31, 2023

It can transform real individuals into AI avatars in video clips shorter than 10 seconds. Additionally, DreamAvatar employs camera pose estimation and light estimation algorithms to seamlessly integrate these digital avatars into the video background, ensuring a natural presentation, according to Meitu.

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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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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

Oculus uses the term to refer to utilizing the outward-facing cameras on a Rift or Quest VR headset to see the room around you. We see a few floating displays, which are quickly resized and rearranged by the user with a form of touch gesture that looks like a pinch, drag, and zoom.

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The Verge

AUGUST 19, 2021

It was there that Zuckerberg first appeared through his webcam before donning a headset and teleporting into a chair at the table as his own legless avatar. A giant, floating display nearby showed other Facebook employees dialed in from the non-VR world to watch us through their computer screens.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

If you click on the cog icon, you can pick an avatar and change your username. Click on the button with a camera icon which says “enable” to turn on your camera. Click “Allow camera and mic.” If you hover over your video window, you’ll see small camera and microphone icons. Click the “Chat” button. Click “Next.”.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 18, 2023

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2006

Let me tell you, getting all those avatars to look into the camera and smile is even more difficult than trying to get a group shot of a bunch of preschoolers! Join the TechSoup discussion list: [link]. and join the next meeting on Friday, July 7th at 11:30 AM EST. After the meeting, we tried for a group photo op.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2023

A “camera mode” lets you take a photo or a smooth dolly shot, but the end result isn’t one-click publishable to social networks. Nor can users create avatars that can move or interact with others, or engage in chats. “Because as soon as you introduce chat…people can do terrible things,” he says. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Users would join as avatars, hang out with other users, and experience VR concerts together. Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Skype users without avatars will also get colorful gradients to make it easier to tell chats apart. Custom notification sounds are part of the immediate new features, while a new TwinCam feature that lets you add your phone camera to a call appears to be coming later. Image: Microsoft. Skype’s colorful new themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

I had skype with a video camera and Second Life application opened (which kept crashing my computer.) You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. It was Peter Morville !

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

A camera on top of the machine checks each visitor’s temperature and verifies that they’re wearing a mask (telling them to go away and get one if not). Initially, the camera that scanned patients’ QR codes was too slow, frustrating people and creating more issues for human staff. The machine didn’t slot into place right away, he says.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Users can pick an avatar, chat or turn on their camera and get coaching in “a non-threatening way.”. The Credit Cocina, an activity food truck, helps users learn about their finances through their favorite recipes. There is also a financial gym where Acevedo said users can “sweat out their debt” by speaking with a debt expert.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Pixy, Snap’s mini drone, is your camera when you don’t have anyone else to hold your phone. Snapchat adds new assistive devices for bitmoji avatars. We would like to highlight that it created a new gadget that will have you forgetting what a selfie stick is. Also: Snap offers Lens Cloud for developers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2022

To get started, creators can record a 60-second clip directly from the app’s camera or import an already existing footage of up to five minutes. Users, meanwhile, can join a tape by tapping the “collab” button that appears next to the carousel displaying avatars of collaborators on the tape. Image Credits: Along.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Plenty of major tech companies have flocked to the idea that AI and machine learning will solve their computation issues, for everything from making smartphone cameras better to offering upscaled gaming visuals, and it’s appealing to think that they might.

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