Expanding the scope of it’s metaverse ideas, Meta is now letting people attend video calls on Instagram and Messenger with their virtual avatars.
These avatars can mimic your facial expressions and mouth movements, making the conversation more realistic. Interestingly, users can switch to animal faces in the video chats. Meta pledges to standardise these avatars across it’s family of apps to make communications more interactive.
Calling With Meta Avatars
Revamping the social media space, Meta is tuning every regular aspect of our daily lives into something that fits with it’s metaverse plans. In this pursuit, Meta announced the ability to attend video calls with virtual avatars on Messenger and Instagram this week.
In a blog post penned by Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah said the new avatars can even mimic your facial expressions and mouth movements – making the conversations much easier to identify what you’re saying. Further, you can even use an animal-themed avatar, like a cat, a dog, or an owl, if you don’t want to be a person.
Eh, Meta rilis avatar buat video call di IG sama Messenger lho… pic.twitter.com/Zo0j1b0hFY
— Urbandigital.id (@urbandigital) July 12, 2023
A video shared by Meta depicts the new video calling mode similar to Apple’s Memoji avatars on a FaceTime call. Well, Meta makes it more interesting by letting you create and use animated avatar stickers, which can signify actions like giving a thumbs-up or rolling on the floor laughing in a conversation.
These avatar-based animated stickers can be used on Instagram, Facebook Stories, FB Reels, Facebook comments and direct message threads on Messenger and Instagram, says Meta.
And lastly, Meta plans to standardise how avatars look across it’s family of apps, including VR. This will eventually attain the goal of normalising communications on the metaverse and let Meta sell some virtual outfits for your avatars.
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