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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Synthesia allows anyone to turn text or a slide deck presentation into a video, complete with a talking avatar. Customers can leverage existing avatars, created from the performance of actors, or create their own in minutes by uploading some video. Synthesia’s AI video generation platform hooks $12.5

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Engadget

APRIL 21, 2025

Regional pricing doesnt yet cover avatar items, but will later in the year. This follows the platforms recently-launched price optimization feature , which helps creators set the best price for anything they are selling.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A Korean startup called Neosapience has developed a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast , that lets users turn text into a video without recording and editing in a studio. . Last month, it added an AI-powered video (avatar) feature that looks like a real person. Today, Neosapience announced it has raised $21.5 raises $1.5M

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Jio Platforms, the biggest telecom operator in India and which has raised over $20 billion from Facebook, Google and other high-profile investors this year, is leading a financing round of a San Francisco-based startup that develops augmented reality mobile games. billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms. Google invests $4.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

New avatars are available, and more details were announced around Teams Premium, a paid set of Teams features including AI-generated tasks and meeting guides, which is set to arrive in December in preview. ” He continued: “You can create custom avatars to represent yourself.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Today, a startup in that bigger ecosystem, which believes it can fix one aspect of how this works — how we ourselves appear — is announcing some funding along with a beta of its live avatar software that has been years in the making. For now, you can share the avatars with friends and put them into a dancing animation.).

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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. million from investors, spent the past year developing its platform, creating a system of integrated technologies that reduces corporate dissolution time from months to days. billion to $3.1

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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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TechImpact

JULY 28, 2014

Reaching out to constituents through multiple networks, and using these powerful social platforms in a targeted way can help take your nonprofit’s fundraising efforts to the next level. Most, if not all, social media platforms will notify users when they have received a new follower with an email, push notification, or other alert.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More than two years and a company rebrand later, Meta is finally opening up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds. It’s an expansive, multiplayer platform that meshes Roblox and the OASIS VR world from Ready Player One. “Now Now we can open up and say we have interesting things that people can do”.

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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. 8) Experiment with Instagram Ads. 10) Study Facebook Business Suite.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Meta’s highest-profile bet right now is a social VR platform for the Quest headset called Horizon Worlds. Meta spokesperson Joe Osborne confirmed the stat and said it included users of Horizon Worlds and Horizon Venues, a separate app for attending live events in VR that uses the same avatars and basic mechanics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

At its annual developer’s conference, Roblox detailed its near-future plans to expand beyond its identity as a game platform for kids.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Synthesia One of the leading AI video creation platforms, Synthesia , allows users to generate professional training videos using AI-generated avatars. Key Benefits of AI Video Tools : AI avatars simplify video production. is an AI voiceover platform that transforms text into speech using human-like voices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

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

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

TikTok owner Douyin is piloting a new AI-driven feature, dubbed the V Project, introducing virtual avatars designed to mimic creators’ personalities and habits, enabling 24/7 interactions with users, according to Chinese media outlet Tech Star. Tech Star, in Chinese ]

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Rephrase.ai, a self-described synthetic media production platform, today announced that it raised $10.6 That proved to be too ambitious, so instead, the Rephrase team developed an AI system that creates avatars of human actors by mapping their faces, synchronizing their lip movements, and mimicking the tone and tenor of their voices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Website: Create a landing page on your website , a microsite , or on a third-party platform, such as Razoo. Create an ambassador sign up page and provide sample email text and social media graphics/avatars. To register for future free webinars, please see the Nonprofit Tech for Good Webinar Schedule.

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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

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. But informally, “metaverse” is also used to describe a single platform that meets the criteria listed above.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2022

As traditional sports viewership declines among Gen Z, social media and streaming platforms are becoming the favorite destination for young sports fans. Stadium Live also has “Rooms,” a feature that’s currently in beta and allows fans to create a unique room with avatar items.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

Synthesia , an AI video generation platform, is looking to make video content creation as simple and efficient as possible, and FirstMark is taking a bet on it making the world better, and not worse. To use their own voice and avatar, Synthesia walks them through instructions on what type of video and audio they should send in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Create a landing page on your website , a microsite , or use a fundraising platform. a landing page on your website , a microsite , or use a fundraising platform.1. Provide sample email text and social media graphics and avatars to your ambassadors. . $68 million was raised in 2015. Before the Giving Day: Get Organized.

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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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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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

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Medium Technology Section

APRIL 20, 2025

Domo AI lets you generate a video into anime style, create talking avatars, make a character move with a reference video, and more. Continue reading on Generative AI

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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. But “metaverse” platforms also remain clunky enough that making people use them for a required work event can be a recipe for frustration.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

Today, Hack The Box , one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cultivate more of the latter group with a gamified approach, is announcing $55 million in funding to expand its business after racking up 1.7 Hack The Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M million users.

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The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

But on some days, the platform can remind us there are still decent humans doing good work to make the world a better, less shitty place. Long ago, an Xbox user who goes by Noukon on Twitter purchased a Pac-Man ghost avatar for a dollar. To start, Eden purchased the Pac-Man avatar, now $2.38 Feel better about that dollar?

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TechNode

APRIL 18, 2024

Richard Liu, founder of Chinese e-commerce company JD, debuted his livestreaming show on Tuesday using an avatar in his likeness. Details: Lius avatar is powered by the companys ChatRhino large language model, according to a WeChat post that JD published on Wednesday. Three, two, one! Show [shopping] link! in 2023 to RMB 1,084.7

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. You choose an avatar, then meet up with their colleagues or friends inside a browser-based game. As you move your avatars closer to one another person you can video chat with them, as you might in real life.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore. Ignore can be activated from several places, including the drop-down menu that appears when clicking on an account's avatar. This allows a person to hide any new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles and activity from selected users without alerting them.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Ideedock : a Q&A platform for employees in enterprises. imgZine : a platform for publishing real-time social magazines on mobile devices. Videoavatars : enables users to utilize online avatars to market and promote their brands. Pastbook : help users rediscover their memories online and offline (see our earlier coverage ).

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