Now we know how we might look on the (infamous) metaverse by Mark Zuckerberg. A few days ago the co-founder and CEO of Meta (former Facebook) unveiled the new avatars that can be used immediately across all platforms of the group. From Facebook, as of now, to the various declensions that make up the metaverse accessed with i Oculus viewers: on all the social Horizon Worlds and the space for work and events Horizon Venues. The same ones where, in recent weeks, they have occurred the first cases of virtual harassment to the detriment of female avatars and who forced the giant to intervene, imposing a safety distance between virtual projections of users.
The new three-dimensional characters, in fact of the cartoon representations of users who will be able to set and customize them in full freedom and in an increasingly detailed way, are an evolution of those already available on Facebook and Messenger, which immortalize us in different poses and grimaces. For some time, but honestly without much success, users can use them to comment or in chat messages. Now comes the leap: not only the graphics are updated but, in fact, avatars can be published in Instagram stories, direct messages and precisely in current and future platforms of the metaverse. Meanwhile, these virtual floating puppets can also be used as a profile image.
The new avatars will initially be available in the United States, Canada and Mexico but will likely arrive in other markets soon. There are new face shapes, more skin tones, accessories that enrich the avatars of people with disabilities (wheelchairs and hearing aids), new clothes and designs: “We have already developed faces, expressions, the various colors leather, even the addition of wheelchairs or hearing aids – said Zuckerberg – now we are taking care of the clothes, including the official American football jerseys for the next Super Bowl, so that they can be used immediately on Quest, Facebook , Instagram and Messenger. We will soon be able to make the new function even more realistic ».
Obviously it is not enough and it will not be enough: it will take further steps to make those avatars truly captivating in use on virtual reality, at least as Zuckerberg himself had announced and implied them during the last Connect 2021 conference. For the moment, they are another step towards the new front through which Zuckerberg hopes to save his giant that has started losing parts and users.
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