Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech

Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that ...

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Varang Actor Oona Chaplin Is Charlie Chaplin’s Granddaughter and Considered Changing Her Name: ‘It’s Tricky to Feel Undeserving’

Avatar: Fire and Ash' actor Oona Chaplin plays Varang and nearly changed her name because she's Charlie Chaplin's ...
Road to VR

Netflix Acquires XR Avatar Startup Ready Player Me

Netflix announced it’s acquiring Ready Player Me, the avatar creation platform, which the streaming giant hopes to leverage ...
GitHub

Workaround for VRChat ignoring Unity muscle-settings for finger bones when using Valve Index controllers.

This is a stupid utility which automatically generates a workaround for this bug. Use this only, if the in-game Legacy Fingers option doesn't yield good-enough results! The moment VRChat fixes that ...
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How close AI avatars are to replacing real people

Everyone keeps asking if AI avatars are coming for our jobs, so we put one to the test. How human can it act? How well can it communicate? Can it actually perform the tasks we rely on people for?
Comic Book Movie

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH Is Currently Tracking To Open Lower In The U.S. Than 2022's AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

Avatar: Fire and Ash is 2025's final huge blockbuster, and the threequel has finally hit tracking boards. According to Deadline (via SFFGazette.com), the James Cameron-helmed movie is eying a debut of ...