DeepMotion has created mobile avatars that mimic your moves.
DeepMotion has created mobile avatars that mimic your moves. This tech demo is a real-time simulation running on PC. While this technology is not one and the same as the Emoji apps available now, it shows the promise of full body motion capture.
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DeepMotion launches digital avatars for Samsung’s Galaxy S10 smartphones

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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DeepMotion is unveiling its digital avatar characters for Samsung’s family of Galaxy S10 smartphones.

The technology tries to outdo previous 3D emojis by ditching canned animations and having the avatar mimic your real-time movements as captured by your camera. This means that Samsung’s augmented reality emojis can reflect the movements of S10 owners in real time, making them a reflection of the user’s personality in a unique new way.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.