Avatars

On Saturday night, Kiss closed out the final performance of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour at New York City's famed Madison Square Garden. But as dedicated fans surely know — they were never going to call it quits. Not really. During their encore, the band's current lineup — founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — left the stage to reveal digital avatars of themselves. After the transformation, the virtual Kiss launched into a performance of “God Gave…

Kiss has been on a really, really long tour. The biggest glam rock band of all time has been playing its End of the Road tour for the last four years, and just wrapped the final show of its final farewell tour in New York City at Madison Square Garden on Friday. Kiss has done several farewell tours, but this time might be for good.At the end of the show, after Kiss finished playing its last song (“Rock and Roll All Nite”), they disappeared in a hail of fire and smoke. After the smoke faded away, the lights went down, and…

Kiss’ final live performance at Madison Square Garden in New York last night also turned out to be the first for the band’s successors — four digital avatars that will play on in the real members’ retirement from physical shows. Kiss concluded the last show of its “The End of the Road” tour by introducing the new virtual band, which then performed “God Gave Rock And Roll To You.”The avatars weren’t just straight replicas of the current band members — Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer — but…

Starting this week, Discord, a global voice, video, and text communications service, is opening Shop to all of its users worldwide to help make their Discord profile stand out with collections of Avatar Decorations and Profile Effects, and other virtual accessories. Any Discord user will be able to make purchases from the Shop on the desktop or web apps, with support for purchasing items on mobile coming in the works. Nitro members will get special member pricing on Shop purchases and an exclusive set only available for…

Reddit, currently riding on the success of its previously released NFTs, has made another splash in the digital collectibles market. The social networking platform has launched the fourth generation of its digital avatars created on the eco-friendly Polygon blockchain. The NFT collection has been named as ‘Retro Reimagined'. The avatars from this collection will feature Reddit's official ‘Snoo' alien mascot, reimagined by artists and creators in different kinds of apparels and moods.“These avatars are limited edition,…

Image Source : META Know how to use Meta avatars during video calls Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has introduced an exciting new feature that allows users to use avatars during video calls on Instagram and Messenger. The feature aims to provide an alternative option for situations when users are not camera-ready but still want to participate in video calls. …

WhatsApp announced that it has added more Avatar Stickers to its app. The app is now capable of creating an avatar of a user automatically by using their selfie. However, it looks like there are more avatar-related features coming to WhatsApp soon. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp plans to introduce animated versions of avatar stickers into the messaging platform. The upcoming feature was spotted in the beta version of WhatsApp (v2.23.15.6) for Android. The animated versions of the avatar stickers being dynamic, feel…

Meta has announced new real-time Avatar feature for video calls on Instagram and Messenger. The company has announced the feature via its blog post, sharing that users can now use their Avatars during video calls on Instagram and Messenger. Meta Avatars on these social media apps' video calls look somewhat similar to Apple's Memoji avatars. These avatars will also follow the users' facial expressions and mouth movements. The feature is rolling out to both Android as well as iOS devices. Additionally, Meta also introduced…

Meta The pandemic was supposed to have made us all comfortable with video calls, but many folks still don’t particularly enjoy the process. Having to think about what to wear, or how our hair looks, or even fretting about puffy eyes following another bout of hay fever can sometimes be a bit much, even more so if it’s an early-morning call and your brain is still in bed. Meta has thankfully taken such drawbacks into consideration and launched cartoon avatars for video calls on Instagram and Messenger. “Wouldn’t it be…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Just making a small tweak to algorithms typically used to enhance images could dramatically boost computer vision recognition capabilities in applications ranging from self-driving cars to cybernetic avatars, RIKEN researchers have shown. Unlike most artificial…