Paris Hilton heads to the metaverse with Decentraland and Genies
Paris Hilton has embraced the decentralized world of blockchain and the metaverse in a partnership with Decentraland and Genies. The celebrity will be one...
DNABlock raises $1.2M to make metaverse avatars more inclusive
DNABlock has raised $1.2 million from SoftBank and others to make metaverse avatars more inclusive. The Los Angeles-based company makes it easier for creators...
Verizon taps Dreamscape Immersive for VR content for 5G
Verizon has tapped Dreamscape Immersive to make virtual reality experiences for 5G networks. The partnership’s goal is technological innovations that take advantage of 5G...
IMVU: Making the coin of the realm for the metaverse
IMVU has been a relatively quiet and unnoticed company in the online gaming and social media worlds. But the company did something recently that...
VCOIN: Real world value in the Metaverse
Presented by IMVU This is an exciting time in the virtual space. Even before the pandemic we’ve seen the virtual worlds of games like...
Alethea AI makes it easy to create AI avatars from a single photo
Synthetic humans are a thing of the future, and the latest project to come along in pursuit of that is Alethea AI, a startup...
Hour One wants synthetic AI characters to be your digital avatars
If you ever wondered how we’ll populate the metaverse, look no further than Hour One, an Israeli startup that is making replicas of people...
AI model creates 3D avatars from a person’s picture
What if all it took to create a realistic digital avatar of a person was a single image? In a paper accepted to the...
Samsung’s AI animates paintings and photos without 3D modeling
Engineers and researchers from Samsung’s AI Center in Moscow and Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have created a model that can generate realistic...
How Facebook is building safety and empathy into AR/VR avatars and shared spaces
Facebook has made both augmented reality and virtual reality experiences that reach a lot of people — more than a billion users in the...