Facebook is working to make designing custom avatars less work by simply uploading a photo instead of manually choosing characteristics.

Digital avatars are our personal representatives in the virtual world and the emerging domain of the metaverse. Here are some ways to get started creating your own, as well as a look at where they ...

If you don't want to use your webcam in a meeting on Microsoft Teams, the Avatar functionality is a great, customizable alternative.

The tech uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to turn a picture of your face into a virtual representation.

Meta showed off its next-generation avatars with legs at its Meta Connect event, but according to a report from UploadVR, the legs shown at the event were pre-animated before the event using ...

Xbox is discontinuing its long-running custom Avatar software, Xbox Avatar Editor, next year. Originally released three years into the Xbox 360's life cycle, Avatars gave players a chance to ...

Avatar Dimension sought to build on the experience of Dimension Studio, Microsoft’s first volumetric capture studio. Seeing opportunities in 3D, it reached out to the storied Seattle-based tech ...

USARIEM researchers have now also developed computer software to create virtual X-ray images of their avatars, allowing them to better customize avatars to warfighters' physical makeup.