Virtual Beings Links 2025-02 (February)

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This webpage compiles a vast and detailed record of developments in digital humans, virtual beings, avatars, and AI-driven technologies as of early 2025. It includes new research methods for generating realistic 3D avatars, industry use cases across healthcare, education, gaming, tourism, and marketing, and emerging platforms that support AI companions, influencers, and NPCs. Notable highlights include advances in animation from single images or videos, patent filings related to avatar generation, the integration of avatars into public services and entertainment, and concerns about ethics, mental health, and regulatory oversight. Companies like NVIDIA, Tencent, ByteDance, Meta, and smaller startups globally are central to this growing ecosystem, with frequent mentions of collaborations, product launches, and funding rounds supporting the expansion of lifelike, interactive digital entities in everyday applications.

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  • 2025-02-28 23:59:51 .. This paper presents LUCAS, a new method for creating highly realistic 3D avatars that can accurately capture both facial expressions and hair movements.
  • 2025-02-28 23:58:32 .. Travel Compositor’s Dora integrates virtual avatars as a key component of its AI-driven interactive travel booth, providing 24/7 automated assistance for travel bookings.
  • 2025-02-28 23:57:10 .. The trademark filing for TRUMP outlines an extensive role for avatars in the proposed virtual world, emphasizing digital self-expression and customization.
  • 2025-02-28 23:56:06 .. The Groq-voice_agent repository by Malik Tayyab Tanveer is an alpha demo of a digital human named Eva, designed for real-time conversational interaction using Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), and a language model.
  • 2025-02-28 23:51:42 .. Avat3r is a new AI model that creates realistic and animated 3D head avatars from just four photos taken with a smartphone.
  • 2025-02-28 00:15:53 .. Zhejiang Wenhulian’s subsidiary, Pairui Weihang, has partnered with Tencent Ads to create 16 digital human advertising avatars, leveraging AI-driven dubbing, e-commerce scripts, and proprietary AIGC technologies.
  • 2025-02-28 00:14:10 .. Peacekeeper Elite has introduced AI capabilities to its digital ambassador, Gilly, by integrating DeepSeek, transforming her from a static virtual figure into an interactive AI NPC that can engage with players in real-time and even act as a game companion.
  • 2025-02-28 00:12:38 .. This study concludes that virtual brand ambassadors can contribute to the sustainability of Chinese traditional brands by positively influencing consumers’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement.
  • 2025-02-28 00:11:18 .. Culturo is an AI-powered platform that enhances museum experiences by transforming historical figures like Cleopatra and Aristotle into interactive digital avatars.
  • 2025-02-28 00:09:56 .. ZTX is the Web3 extension of ZEPETO, leveraging its avatar technology to transition users into blockchain-based experiences.
  • 2025-02-28 00:08:58 .. Portola has launched Tolan, an AI companion designed for conversational support, securing $10 million in seed funding and attracting 500,000 downloads.
  • 2025-02-28 00:07:16 .. The Unreal Plugin Viewer integrates Rapport with Unreal Engine to enable real-time character animation by capturing voice input, processing it through Rapport for synchronized speech and movement.
  • 2025-02-28 00:05:43 .. Cho Hyungmo discusses refining his workflow using Character Creator 4 (CC4) and Unreal Engine 5, aiming to improve efficiency in rigging, skinning, and texturing.
  • 2025-02-28 00:04:47 .. Friend of the Sea has introduced the world’s first interactive avatar-based certification audit system for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, leveraging AI-driven avatars to revolutionize sustainability assessments.
  • 2025-02-27 04:23:14 .. AI digital human startup Klleon is expanding its partnership with Dentsu to develop its business in Japan, using its video generation, voice cloning, and motion synthesis technology to create digital humans.
  • 2025-02-27 04:20:48 .. Deutsche Telekom will launch AI avatars and a gamified sales promotion app in 2025, enabling retailers to engage customers using their own voices and faces on social media, with the first 100 avatars available by Q1.
  • 2025-02-27 04:19:20 .. Kizuna AI has returned after a three-year hiatus with a more casual look and a renewed focus on music for deeper fan connections, releasing the song kamone and announcing another for March.
  • 2025-02-27 04:17:35 .. Activision’s Elsewhere Entertainment is hiring a Senior AI Programmer (NPC Locomotion) for its new IP, based in Warsaw, Poland, or Malmö, Sweden (On-Site Hybrid).
  • 2025-02-27 04:16:46 .. PlayerZero is a next-generation avatar collectible platform that enables users to create, customize, and carry their digital identities across multiple virtual worlds and games.
  • 2025-02-27 04:15:30 .. PARSONII is a digital human platform developed by NTT DATA Business Solutions that provides AI-powered virtual assistants for customer interaction and operational support.
  • 2025-02-27 04:14:39 .. Nanomon Virtual Pet is an upcoming virtual pet simulation game developed by Oscar Brittain and published by Akupara Games, set for release in 2025.
  • 2025-02-27 04:13:42 .. Cyprus is actively contributing to the EU’s push for virtual human twins in medical research, with Chief Scientist Demetris Skourides highlighting the country’s role in this innovative field.
  • 2025-02-27 04:12:41 .. Zoocade, the first hologram zoo in the U.S., has opened in Austin, Texas, offering immersive augmented reality experiences.
  • 2025-02-27 04:11:34 .. Delegates at the Madhya Pradesh Global Investors Summit received Mahakal Prasad and experienced a live darshan of Baba Mahakal in Ujjain through a holographic presentation.
  • 2025-02-27 04:10:16 .. Mental health experts, including the American Psychological Association (APA), warn that AI therapy chatbots, while sophisticated, pose risks to vulnerable users by providing misleading or harmful advice.
  • 2025-02-27 04:09:13 .. AKOOL has announced enhancements to its AI-powered Streaming Avatars, which now integrate with large language models (LLMs) to create dynamic, lifelike digital avatars.
  • 2025-02-27 04:08:14 .. AI is transforming fashion by enabling digital replicas of models like Alexsandrah Gondora, created by The Diigitals, to be booked for shoots, reducing costs and reliance on traditional photography.
  • 2025-02-27 04:04:55 .. An ambitious but failed experiment in interactive cinema by Bob Gale and Interfilm Inc. featured audience-controlled choices, but despite its high-tech execution and gamified storytelling, it flopped commercially and critically.
  • 2025-02-25 23:48:44 .. Digital Human Co. has partnered with Dentsu Digital to integrate lifelike digital humans with the ?AI Chat conversational AI, enhancing customer interactions through realistic voice-enabled virtual representatives with seamless web deployment.
  • 2025-02-25 23:47:33 .. Yuan Fenshen has integrated the DeepSeek-R1 model into its digital human product line to launch China’s first AI-powered one-stop IP video creation center, enabling businesses to generate personalized digital human content in minutes.
  • 2025-02-25 23:45:47 .. This study concludes that the form realism of avatar interviewers in AI-assisted job interviews significantly influences job applicants’ self-disclosure.
  • 2025-02-25 23:44:56 .. Virtual influencers are reshaping digital marketing by providing scalable, AI-driven brand representation, but their success hinges on addressing ethical concerns around authenticity, transparency, and consumer trust.
  • 2025-02-25 23:43:42 .. Entropia Universe enhanced its NPC system with AI-driven S.E.N.S.E technology in October 2024, enabling real-time, context-aware interactions, and expanded it in February 2025 with five new NPCs offering dynamically generated daily missions.
  • 2025-02-25 23:42:29 .. Saif Ur Rehman’s Fiverr service offers AI-powered MetaHuman development using NVIDIA ACE and Unreal Engine 5, featuring realistic facial animations, AI-driven interactions, RAG-based retrieval, and browser-based deployment via Pixel Streaming.
  • 2025-02-25 23:40:36 .. Aurore, developed by ARCLOOP LIMITED, is a screen-aware AI companion that seamlessly integrates into gaming and work, offering real-time chat, strategy assistance, and task support, available for free with ads on Mac and Windows.
  • 2025-02-25 23:38:41 .. AI companions present an urgent regulatory challenge as they increasingly influence child safety and digital well-being, fostering emotional bonds that may exacerbate digital isolation while prompting legal and ethical scrutiny.
  • 2025-02-25 23:37:16 .. Goodgang Labs, an AI avatar startup founded in 2022 by former Meta and Line AI experts, has signed a strategic MOU with hygiene product brand MamiSon INC to innovate in AI avatar voice agents for retail.
  • 2025-02-25 23:36:20 .. Epic Games has introduced two new characters, Big Dill and The Brat, in Fortnite as part of its latest season, forming a hip-hop duo called the Tasty Bois.
  • 2025-02-25 23:35:18 .. Claude AI’s Pokémon Red experiment showcases its adaptive decision-making, real-time strategy, and long-term memory retention, highlighting its potential as an autonomous virtual being capable of evolving through interactions.
  • 2025-02-25 23:33:28 .. Linden Lab has introduced the Character Designer (Alpha) in collaboration with Convai, allowing Premium Plus users in Second Life to create, customize, and animate AI-driven virtual characters.
  • 2025-02-25 23:32:29 .. The Awesome Digital Human Live2D project enables AI-driven, context-aware conversations, dynamically refining responses based on user input.
  • 2025-02-25 00:38:50 .. Huanhe Liebian, a virtual host incubation company in Wuhan’s OVU Maker Star, initially faced talent shortages and slow production but launched a creative camp to attract young artists, though early recruitment was challenging due to limited recognition.
  • 2025-02-25 00:36:59 .. NetEase integrated DeepSeek as a virtual persona in Justice Online Mobile, enhancing its AI-driven NPCs with emotional interactions, distinct personalities, and dynamic relationships, continuing its role as a testing ground for advanced AI models like Alibaba’s Tongyi and Baidu’s Wenxin.
  • 2025-02-25 00:35:16 .. This study concludes that facial features significantly impact the perception of avatars, with larger eyes generally leading to more positive impressions, including increased attractiveness, sympathy, trustworthiness, extraversion, and openness.
  • 2025-02-25 00:34:13 .. BioMojo, a North Carolina-based biomedical company, has developed a human digital twin platform that integrates data from both open-source and proprietary technologies to create real-time, multi-parameterized models.
  • 2025-02-24 03:09:44 .. Chumenwenwen has launched the Xiaowen Mobile Digital Human on February 21. This embodied AI product is built on DeepSeek, Chumenwenwen’s proprietary large model series Monkey, and the Qualcomm QCS8550 chip.
  • 2025-02-24 03:08:13 .. Luo Zihao of Hengxueyun has advanced AI digital humans by enhancing realism and conversational algorithms, particularly benefiting education with AI tutors and media with AI anchors.
  • 2025-02-24 03:06:35 .. On February 19, Nanning First People’s Hospital launched its first AI-powered digital doctor, providing 24/7 online consultation services to enhance patient care.
  • 2025-02-24 03:05:23 .. Xiaoduo Intelligent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., founded in 2017, is a high-tech company specializing in AI-powered digital humans and industry-specific AI models.
  • 2025-02-24 03:04:08 .. AI unicorn 01.AI, founded by Kai-Fu Lee, is restructuring by spinning off its digital human business under Yang Changpeng while Lan Yuchuan leads a new AI video editing initiative, SparkView.
  • 2025-02-24 03:02:20 .. This study concludes that avatars and human witnesses are perceived differently in mock courtroom settings, with avatars generally receiving more favorable ratings than human witnesses.
  • 2025-02-23 00:30:58 .. Virtual influencers offer a controlled, brand-aligned alternative to human influencers in digital marketing, addressing cost and reputational risks, though concerns about authenticity persist, and this study systematically reviews existing research to explore their impact on consumer behavior.
  • 2025-02-23 00:29:13 .. Inworld is seeking a People Ops/HR Lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area to oversee HR functions at its Mountain View office.
  • 2025-02-23 00:28:21 .. UneeQ will showcase its AI-driven digital human solutions at Web Summit Qatar 2025 from February 23–26 at DECC, highlighting its work with Qatar Airways, Saudi Tourism, and GOSI.
  • 2025-02-23 00:27:02 .. ByteDance is hiring a Digital Human 3D Graphics Engine Rendering Technical Expert in Beijing, China, for its Intelligent Creation division.
  • 2025-02-23 00:26:17 .. Mascotbot offers AI-driven animated mascots designed to enhance user experience across platforms through high-performance vector characters and real-time lip-syncing.
  • 2025-02-23 00:25:11 .. Frank Fu on digital human technology from foundational systems to optimized real-time streaming.
  • 2025-02-23 00:24:12 .. Inclusive Avatar Guidelines advocate for disability representation in social VR by ensuring full-body avatars, customizable body parts, equitable performance, assistive technology integration, expressive animations, and inclusive design elements.
  • 2025-02-23 00:22:11 .. In Korea, AI is being integrated into religious practices, as seen in KAIST’s December 2024 experiment with ShamAIn, an AI-generated shaman in Seoul offering fortune-telling and psychological comfort.
  • 2025-02-22 00:23:22 .. This video explores the nostalgic world of 1990s screenmates, examining their popularity and mix of amusement and distraction.
  • 2025-02-22 00:21:33 .. Alibaba Cloud has launched Animate Anyone 2, an upgraded AI model that animates lifelike characters from a single image and a video cue by integrating motion and environmental signals.
  • 2025-02-22 00:20:39 .. This article highlights how Mawari’s AI-driven digital humans, integrated into Osaka’s urban infrastructure, aim to transform public spaces, tourism, and customer service.
  • 2025-02-22 00:19:42 .. MakeInfluencer is an AI-driven platform that enables users to create and monetize AI influencers by automating interactions and content creation.
  • 2025-02-22 00:18:45 .. As AI chatbots like Replika and Character AI grow in popularity for companionship, youth advocacy groups are pushing for stricter regulations, fearing that children may form unhealthy relationships with them.
  • 2025-02-22 00:17:32 .. The AI Avatar Creator Challenge, organized by India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting and Avtr Meta Labs, is part of the Create in India Challenge Season 1 under the WAVES (World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit) initiative.
  • 2025-02-22 00:16:08 .. NVIDIA has introduced Signs, an AI-based platform for learning American Sign Language (ASL) and developing a validated dataset for ASL learners and AI applications.
  • 2025-02-22 00:15:09 .. Grand Theft Hamlet is a unique blend of Shakespearean theater, video gaming, and pandemic-era creativity, conceived by British actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen.
  • 2025-02-22 00:14:12 .. Bethesda is auctioning off a chance for one player to be immortalized as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6, with proceeds benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
  • 2025-02-22 00:13:18 .. NVIDIA In-Game Inferencing (NVIGI) SDK integrates with NVIDIA ACE to enable seamless AI inference in game development, allowing autonomous game characters to perceive, reason, and act in real time.
  • 2025-02-22 00:12:27 .. Janosch Amstutz, Founder and CEO of Beem, has led the company from its origins as HoloMe to pioneering holographic communication and spatial computing, recently transitioning to blockchain-based funding.
  • 2025-02-22 00:11:09 .. Tianyu, a virtual persona created by Yuan Yuan Technology and launched in April 2022, is inspired by the Flying Apsaras from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.
  • 2025-02-22 00:09:58 .. Plave’s song Dash from their latest EP, Caligo Pt.1, debuted at No. 195 on the Billboard Global 200, making them the first virtual idol group to enter the chart.
  • 2025-02-21 09:04:21 .. gogh: Focus with Your Avatar by ambr, Inc., launching in 2025 for Windows with Mac support planned, is a cozy productivity simulation game blending avatar customization, room design, virtual pet mechanics.
  • 2025-02-21 09:02:58 .. The update of digital humans in traffic police service halls is driven by several key factors: improving service efficiency, enhancing user experience, reducing labor costs, increasing public engagement, and aligning with smart city development.
  • 2025-02-21 09:01:32 .. Aihua Shen Technology (Xiamen), a Beijing-based AI company specializing in hyper-realistic digital beings, has launched operations in Xiamen’s Software Park Phase 1, expanding its presence in telecommunications, finance, education, and cultural tourism.
  • 2025-02-21 08:59:40 .. Digital humans, increasingly integrated into daily life, are now expanding beyond e-commerce and media into new applications like sign language communication and medical registration in Shanghai Pudong.
  • 2025-02-21 08:57:45 .. The adoption of AI digital humans is transforming rural e-commerce and agricultural modernization in China.
  • 2025-02-21 08:56:35 .. China’s National Intellectual Property Administration granted a patent to Hunan Happy Sunshine Interactive Entertainment Media Co., Ltd. for a real-time generation method and device for digital characters.
  • 2025-02-21 08:54:58 .. Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Dongfang Hospital is partnering with Huawei’s digital human technology to advance the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) through digital intelligence.
  • 2025-02-21 08:53:49 .. Hui Taojin Group is advancing digital human technology by integrating AI-driven marketing solutions, particularly in short-form video engagement.
  • 2025-02-21 08:52:27 .. CEO of virtual human company Aww discusses the evolution and future of AI-powered digital characters.
  • 2025-02-21 08:50:59 .. Omotion and Metatoon have announced a collaboration to produce virtual content based on webtoon IP, leveraging AI technology.
  • 2025-02-21 08:49:46 .. The German district of Oldenburg, in Lower Saxony, digital team is developing an AI avatar named Kaya to assist users on the district’s website by answering questions and facilitating communication with the administration.
  • 2025-02-21 08:48:39 .. Mieke Haase’s AI singer Namae Koi has released her debut album Me Machine. Originally launched as an AI experiment in 2022, Namae Koi is a virtual artist created by Haase, the CCO of Loved, blending a unique aesthetic with AI-generated music.
  • 2025-02-21 08:47:36 .. Jung von Matt Limmat has developed an AI avatar named Maria Bernasconi for PostFinance to simplify financial education on Instagram.
  • 2025-02-21 08:46:39 .. This essay highlights how the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) has integrated digital humans into military training and wargaming simulations over the past 25 years.
  • 2025-02-21 08:45:46 .. Tom Gilchrist, Head of Partner Success at Ready Player Me, clarifies that there are no plans to shut down access for existing partners, ensuring that their games and apps will continue to function with proper notice if any features are discontinued.
  • 2025-02-21 08:44:31 .. This paper introduces a method to create realistic 3D avatars of people using just a single video, even if parts of their body are not visible.
  • 2025-02-21 08:43:37 .. Rebellion is seeking a Senior AI Gameplay Programmer to join its experienced code team and contribute to unannounced large-scale projects.
  • 2025-02-21 08:42:39 .. This paper concludes that the proposed generative AI-based pipeline successfully generates high-fidelity 3D digital humans from a single frontal image while enabling real-time motion synchronization.
  • 2025-02-21 08:41:32 .. Daz 3D has launched the Daz to Roblox Exporter Beta, enabling users to bring realistic Genesis 9 avatars from Daz Studio into Roblox Studio with ease.
  • 2025-02-20 06:03:07 .. A 30-inch transparent OLED display featuring an AI digital human offers high-quality visuals and is ideal for indoor displays and product presentations.
  • 2025-02-20 06:01:49 .. An AI startup is seeking UGC creators to become AI avatars by providing high-quality video footage, expressive facial movements, and voice recordings for AI training.
  • 2025-02-20 06:00:52 .. Hedra Stylize, enhanced by the Character-1.5 update, refines lifelike digital character creation with sharper visuals, improved animations, and natural movements like blinking and head tilts while maintaining user identity.
  • 2025-02-20 05:59:35 .. Kagami, a virtual concert at the Melbourne Convention Centre as part of the Asia Topa Arts Festival, uses advanced 3D projection technology and 48 special cameras to create an immersive experience reviving a renowned electronic pop composer.
  • 2025-02-20 05:58:03 .. Prime Focus Ltd, an Indian content creation company, has acquired AI content developer Metaphysic through its DNEG Group’s subsidiary, Brahma, via a merger that values Brahma at $1.43 billion.
  • 2025-02-20 05:57:07 .. Envoyé Spécial on France 2 dedicated its episode to artificial intelligence, providing an opportunity for Monks, S4 Capital’s fully digital and data-driven agency, to showcase its expertise by unveiling a hyper-realistic avatar of host and journalist Élise Lucet.
  • 2025-02-20 05:55:47 .. Flawless has commercially launched DeepEditor, an AI-powered editing tool showcased at the BFE Cut Above Awards 2025, used in Hollywood productions to refine performances and adjust dialogue.
  • 2025-02-20 05:53:51 .. SoloAI, an AI-powered music generator and virtual artist creator, has announced a $2 million seed round led by HongShan (formerly Sequoia China) with support from Story Protocol.
  • 2025-02-18 20:03:54 .. Early regulation of AI companions is needed to prevent addiction, emotional dependency, and exploitation, as their engagement-driven design and unclear legal status pose significant psychological, ethical, and legal risks.
  • 2025-02-18 02:02:58 .. Dr. Niu AI Study Room has integrated AI digital humans to enhance its short video marketing and streamline content production. The company adopted Movella Youyan, a 3D AI digital human video creation platform.
  • 2025-02-18 01:57:41 .. At the Shenzhen International LED Exhibition on February 17, multiple companies introduced digital human solutions powered by the DeepSeek large model (DS).
  • 2025-02-18 01:53:21 .. As the lead organization in the Lotte World Interactive AI Talking Loti project, Eliot played a key role in developing AI-powered digital human technology for real-time customer engagement at Lotte World theme park.
  • 2025-02-18 01:52:21 .. Artificial intelligence specialist Acryl (CEO Park Oe-jin) announced on the 17th that it has opened a digital human exhibition hall at the Independence Hall of Korea to commemorate the 80th anniversary of liberation.
  • 2025-02-18 01:51:22 .. Virtual influencers (VIs) are emerging as a significant force in influencer marketing, gaining commercial success and audience engagement despite being entirely digital creations.
  • 2025-02-18 01:50:05 .. Virtual beings, including avatars controlled by humans, are increasingly present in daily life, with applications such as Zoom avatars for online meetings and Lawson’s remote-controlled store assistants.
  • 2025-02-18 01:48:50 .. This paper introduces Sonic, a method for generating animated portrait videos that prioritizes global audio perception rather than relying on visual motion cues.
  • 2025-02-18 01:48:00 .. This paper concludes that using realistic, interactive 3D holographic avatars can greatly improve medical training, especially for assessing pain in patients.
  • 2025-02-18 01:47:09 .. Indian AI startup Ikonz Studios has secured $5 million in pre-Series A funding from Marc Jordan, Madhusudan Kela, Expedia CTO Ramana Thummu, and Enam Group’s Akash Bhanshali, all investing through their family offices.
  • 2025-02-18 01:46:05 .. This study found that real people (human influencers) are better at convincing others to care about the environment than virtual influencers (computer-generated personalities).
  • 2025-02-17 01:28:37 .. Reports indicate that the China National Intellectual Property Administration granted a patent to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co., Ltd. for a Virtual Avatar Driving Method and Device, Equipment, Medium, and Program Product.
  • 2025-02-17 01:26:59 .. Nanjing Silicon-Based Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. has been granted a patent titled Method, Device, and Equipment for Generating a Video-Driven Digital Human Expression Model, according to the National Intellectual Property Administration.
  • 2025-02-17 01:25:17 .. Zhejiang Satellite TV’s digital human studio has integrated DeepSeek into the virtual host Gu Xiaoyu, enhancing her AI capabilities in understanding and emotional simulation.
  • 2025-02-17 01:23:56 .. NetEase’s Justice Online mobile game has announced that on February 21, with the release of the 2.3 ocean-themed update, it will introduce the AI-powered NPC Shen Qiusuo, driven by DeepSeek.
  • 2025-02-17 01:22:38 .. Beijing Jizhi Hexin Technology has partnered with Alibaba Cloud to advance digital human technology through the launch of the Baiqing Plan under Alibaba Cloud’s Panxi Digital Human initiative.
  • 2025-02-17 01:21:26 .. Jiangsu Mobile has launched a digital human AI feature for Lunar New Year greetings, developed in collaboration with Huawei Core Network.
  • 2025-02-17 01:18:46 .. Hefei Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Research Institute Co., Ltd. has applied for a patent titled A Multimodal Digital Human Generation Method and System with the China National Intellectual Property Administration.
  • 2025-02-17 00:58:54 .. Aww plans to produce short dramas in 2025 that incorporate virtual humans.
  • 2025-02-17 00:58:03 .. This dissertation concludes that both human and AI-Reface endorsers can effectively capture viewer attention in video ads, but human endorsers have a slight advantage when it comes to influencing purchase decisions.
  • 2025-02-17 00:57:11 .. Shahzaib Aslam, a specialist in deep learning and generative AI, introduces his work in virtual human creation at COLOSSYAN.
  • 2025-02-17 00:56:09 .. Cluster is a Japanese metaverse platform that enables users to interact in virtual spaces using custom VRM avatars, also on Meta Quest.
  • 2025-02-17 00:54:53 .. Zerrin Yumak, an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, announced that her new paper, Wild West of Evaluating Speech-Driven 3D Facial Animation Synthesis: A Benchmark Study, will be presented at the Eurographics conference in London in May.
  • 2025-02-17 00:53:23 .. Don Hopkins played a key role in The Sims, shaping its UI and pie menu system, while 1997 design documents reveal its planning, technical innovations, and cultural impact, as well as modular simulation mechanics.
  • 2025-02-16 05:48:08 .. NTT QONOQ and Enbound have launched an AI avatar-based multilingual tourism guide at the Iizaka Onsen Tourism Association in Fukushima, starting February 14, 2025.
  • 2025-02-16 05:47:19 .. This study concludes that people form meaningful connections with fictional characters, particularly waifus and husbandos, in ways that mirror real-world relationships.
  • 2025-02-16 05:46:26 .. This study found that people decide whether to trust and follow virtual influencers based on three key factors: how much the influencer surprises them (expectancy violation), how they feel about them (emotion), and how much mental effort it takes to process their presence (cognitive effort).
  • 2025-02-16 05:45:30 .. This paper examines the role of digital humans as virtual endorsers in advertising and their impact on consumer trust and advertising effectiveness.
  • 2025-02-16 05:44:38 .. This paper presents a hypothetical conceptual model suggesting how AI influencers could establish parasocial relationships through customer profiling, adaptive engagement strategies, and real-time feedback mechanisms.
  • 2025-02-16 05:43:46 .. The FACES project explores how avatars and AI can improve survey methodologies by replacing traditional interviewers with virtual representations.
  • 2025-02-16 05:41:43 .. Love and Deepspace, an AI-driven dating sim by Paper Games, has captivated millions, including Alicia Wang, with its interactive virtual boyfriends, fueling high engagement and solidifying the company’s industry dominance.
  • 2025-02-16 05:40:24 .. Strivr is an extended reality (XR) training platform that incorporates AI-powered avatars for virtual learning.
  • 2025-02-16 05:39:30 .. A client is looking for a skilled 3D animation artist to transform their 2D AI-generated characters into realistic Unreal Engine avatars that can be controlled in real time based on their movements.
  • 2025-02-16 05:38:22 .. Lyndsay Pearson is the creative franchise vice president of The Sims at Maxis, with over 20 years of experience working on the franchise.
  • 2025-02-16 05:37:30 .. Meta has introduced Fantastical Avatars in Horizon Worlds, expanding beyond its traditional human-form avatars.
  • 2025-02-16 05:36:39 .. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company recently secured U.S. Patent No. 12,220,638, which could strengthen their lawsuit against Palworld.
  • 2025-02-16 05:35:35 .. In January 2025, DAZ 3D filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Ready Player Me in the U.S. District Court for Utah (Case No. 2:25-cv-00036), overseen by Judge Robert J. Shelby.
  • 2025-02-16 05:34:15 .. Megameta Entertainment, led by CEO Na Byeong-jun, is launching its first virtual idol project with the debut of IXIA, a four-member virtual girl group set to debut in the first half of the year.
  • 2025-02-16 05:33:30 .. Cai Felip is the CEO and co-founder of Union Avatars, a company specializing in digital identity solutions through realistic 3D avatars generated from a single 2D selfie.
  • 2025-02-16 05:32:28 .. This video introduces Arthur One, a major update to the Arthur platform, designed to integrate AI as digital co-workers alongside human users for enhanced productivity and collaboration.
  • 2025-02-14 05:41:39 .. Ubisoft’s Massive Entertainment is hiring a Senior Character Artist in Malmö, Sweden, to create high-quality 3D characters for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, collaborating with various teams to ensure visual fidelity.
  • 2025-02-14 05:36:44 .. A client seeks a 3D animation artist to convert 2D AI-generated characters into 15 realistic Unreal Engine avatars with outfit variations, a standard humanoid rig, and real-time motion control.
  • 2025-02-14 05:35:06 .. Seton Hall Law’s Virtual Symposium on AI Companions, held on February 18, 2025, will examine AI companion bots’ impact on children’s screen addiction and online safety through two expert panels on addiction mechanisms, legal risks, and regulatory actions.
  • 2025-02-14 05:31:39 .. Marty Saiz and Steve Davis are leading the creation of the New Mexico Sports and Cultural Museum, integrating StoryFile’s interactive digital conversations to showcase notable New Mexicans, with plans for a $20 million Dream Center to inspire future generations.
  • 2025-02-14 05:30:24 .. AKOOL offers AI-driven solutions for pre-recorded content, real-time interaction, and customer support, including Talking Avatar for multilingual marketing and training, Streaming Avatar for real-time virtual assistants, and AI Support Agent for automated customer service and retention.
  • 2025-02-14 05:28:59 .. Mango AI by Hong Kong-based Mango Animate uses AI-driven lip-syncing and facial recognition to transform pet photos into realistic talking animations with multilingual voices, customizable expressions, video face swaps, and AI translation.
  • 2025-02-14 05:27:18 .. The growing use of avatars raises complex legal and ethical challenges related to identity, crime, and governance, as issues like avatar-linked fraud, cybercrime, psychological attachment, and decentralized decision-making necessitate new legal frameworks to balance security, privacy, and accountability while preserving user freedom and creativity.
  • 2025-02-14 05:25:15 .. Cosima Oka-Doerge, a former U.S./EU marketing manager at Crypton Future Media, was instrumental in globalizing Hatsune Miku and later dedicated nearly a decade to promoting Sobetsu, Hokkaido, where she plans to continue supporting tourism after her advisory role ends in March 2025.
  • 2025-02-14 05:23:11 .. Soul Machines Discovery offers a $5.99/month AI assistant subscription with real-time, judgment-free coaching across life skills, continuous conversations, and user influence on future designs.
  • 2025-02-14 05:19:14 .. Synth Studios introduced Mohammed, an AI-powered Synth Human, as a multilingual virtual host and expert at the UN COP16 Conference in Riyadh, providing real-time insights on climate change and desertification.
  • 2025-02-12 23:50:25 .. The AI digital human Xiao Ke connects users to technological resources, streamlining research and innovation through 24/7 multi-platform access and extensive industry matchmaking.
  • 2025-02-12 23:48:50 .. Jeff Orkin, CEO of Bitpart AI, announced the third Bitpart SDK with Unreal Engine 5 support, expanding its character behavior and interactive affordance tools for game assets, which will be showcased alongside AI-assisted authoring and Script-to-Scene features at GDC 2025.
  • 2025-02-12 23:47:14 .. This video showcases Ada, a digital human created with Unreal Engine and NVIDIA Omniverse’s Audio2Face, as Milan Khanal explores its real-time facial animations, future enhancements with NVIDIA ACE and LLMs.
  • 2025-02-12 23:45:54 .. This study highlights avatar-based psychotherapy (ABP) as a promising mental health tool that reduces psychological barriers, fosters trust through avatar personalization and nonverbal communication, and encourages self-reflection.
  • 2025-02-12 23:44:35 .. Sally Coleman explores the intersection of virtual production and live music in Big Sand Live, drawing from her experience as a musician to examine liveness, audience interaction, and the challenges of independent artists adopting new technologies.
  • 2025-02-12 23:43:18 .. Soul Vault AI uses AI and Web3 to create interactive avatars that preserve personality, voice, and memories, enabling real-time communication and digital legacy preservation.
  • 2025-02-12 23:40:34 .. Simtryx, a Los Angeles-based company specializing in AI-driven spatial simulations for healthcare training, develops advanced medical training software with real-time hand tracking, interactive AI scenarios, and mixed-reality simulations, available on the Meta Store with multiplayer support.
  • 2025-02-12 23:38:58 .. Steve DiPaola, a professor at Simon Fraser University’s iVizLab, introduced an AI-driven expressive bot trained on climate change knowledge, integrating ConvAI, RAGs, MetaHumans, and Unreal Engine to model creativity, emotion, and social good in a live, unscripted demonstration.
  • 2025-02-11 21:30:19 .. Shanghai’s Putuo District hosted an AI-powered digital twin event, where over 130 children explored digital human technology through interactive activities like the Digital Anchor segment, using a professional generation toolkit to enhance AI education.
  • 2025-02-11 21:28:26 .. Daegu’s local governments are actively integrating digital humans into public communication through AI-generated characters.
  • 2025-02-11 21:27:14 .. DiFun Inc. has launched Yumeno Lyra, an AI VTuber with a bratty yet endearing (mesugaki) personality that analyzes YouTube comments for emotions and generates automatic, playful responses.
  • 2025-02-11 21:26:22 .. Cyan Puppets is a Chinese company that develops AI-based motion capture and 3D animation technology.
  • 2025-02-11 21:24:36 .. NetVRk has announced SilkAI, an AI-driven 3D character creation platform designed to enhance NetVRk’s metaverse with lifelike AI companions and NPCs.
  • 2025-02-11 21:23:12 .. The Sims 1 features a variety of unusual NPCs, including mysterious figures who disrupt social events, supernatural entities that startle or inconvenience Sims, authority figures who enforce strict behavior, obsessive characters who intrude on others’ lives, and performers whose appearances often lead to unintended chaos.
  • 2025-02-11 01:22:28 .. Robert Yang, CEO of Altera, develops emotionally intelligent digital humans by integrating cognitive science, embodiment, and emotional states to create adaptive, goal-directed AI for meaningful interactions.
  • 2025-02-11 01:20:36 .. HumanDiT is a new AI model designed to generate realistic human motion videos from a single image, even for long and complex movements like dancing or speaking.
  • 2025-02-11 01:19:39 .. This study found that the way people behave in virtual reality (VR) changes depending on their social context, both in the virtual and physical world.
  • 2025-02-11 01:18:43 .. Alangu, a Cologne-based company, has won the Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) Award for its AI-powered Kommunaler Gebärdensprach-Avatar-Baukasten (KGAB), which translates digital content into sign language to enhance digital inclusion for the deaf.
  • 2025-02-10 19:28:56 .. Legal frameworks for virtual beings remain fragmented, with the U.S. emphasizing transparency, China enforcing identity disclosure, and the EU mandating AI labeling, while gaps in biometric privacy, copyright, and licensing highlight the need for standardized regulations.
  • 2025-02-10 18:31:15 .. Regulating virtual beings requires a balanced approach that integrates global governance, ethical considerations, and industry self-regulation to address transparency, rights protections, and societal impacts while fostering responsible innovation.
  • 2025-02-09 23:49:19 .. Hangzhou News Broadcast introduced an AI news anchor, Xiaoyu, achieving a 0% error rate, sparking public debate. While some praised AI’s role in journalism, others questioned its ethical boundaries.
  • 2025-02-09 23:47:39 .. Huameng Digital Intelligence, which shifted from traditional industrial manufacturing to AIoT and digital twin platforms, has integrated the YouYan AI digital human platform for video marketing in industrial contexts.
  • 2025-02-09 23:46:28 .. The appointment of former Digital Domain CEO Daniel Seah as W?t? FX’s new CEO marks a significant shift toward AI-driven digital humans in Hollywood’s visual effects industry.
  • 2025-02-09 23:45:07 .. Behavision is Tianyu Digital Technology’s proprietary AI+3D multimodal cloud platform, integrating advanced technologies such as the Zhizhe Qianwen large-scale AI model, 3D datasets, and visual algorithms.
  • 2025-02-09 23:43:54 .. The AI-powered digital health assistant Xiaohui appeared on the Nasdaq screen in New York’s Times Square on January 29, 2025, to deliver Lunar New Year greetings.
  • 2025-02-09 23:42:41 .. Beijing’s ‘Action Plan for Technology-Enabled Cultural Innovation (2025-2027)’ outlines a strategic push to integrate digital humans into immersive cultural and entertainment experiences.
  • 2025-02-09 23:41:17 .. Saltlux is expanding its digital human capabilities through its subsidiary Plunit, which operates the virtual human video generation service Plunit Studio.
  • 2025-02-09 23:40:23 .. A digital artist/video creator is sought for an online ADHD support platform for teens.
  • 2025-02-09 23:39:27 .. Velox XR is inviting animators, VFX artists, and AI creators to explore a new workflow for integrating AI-generated digital humans into Unreal Engine scenes.
  • 2025-02-09 23:38:11 .. The study concludes that virtual influencers are more effective in product endorsements when they co-endorse with real influencers rather than endorsing alone.
  • 2025-02-09 00:11:15 .. South Korean AI startup Klleon is gaining global attention for advancing realistic digital humans, enabling their integration into industries like customer service, news, and virtual influence through accessible generative AI technology.
  • 2025-02-09 00:10:16 .. Virtual idol group PLAVE set a new daily streaming record in South Korea, surpassing SEVENTEEN and highlighting the growing mainstream impact of virtual artists in the music industry.
  • 2025-02-09 00:08:53 .. Mitsubishi Research Institute’s seven strategies to overcome the uncanny valley include avoiding fear-inducing traits, enhancing friendliness, clarifying artificiality, fostering familiarity, ensuring design consistency, using stylization, and achieving refined photorealism.
  • 2025-02-09 00:07:11 .. Ryoyo Electro and Aww have partnered to offer virtual human solutions using NVIDIA Omniverse ACE, integrating Aww’s MasterModel technology for custom AI-driven avatars in healthcare, manufacturing, marketing, and customer service applications.
  • 2025-02-09 00:06:06 .. This study examines women’s interactions with Replika, framing AI-mediated intimacy within historical media consumption patterns and feminist media studies, challenging the notion of users as lonely victims and instead highlighting agency, emotional coping, and continuity with romance and self-help culture.
  • 2025-02-09 00:04:46 .. This study concludes that people in Indonesia are more likely to follow and engage with virtual influencers (VIs) if they find them useful, easy to interact with, and socially accepted by their peers.
  • 2025-02-09 00:03:17 .. VirtualHumans Org, a key database on virtual influencers, significantly shapes industry research, as a review of 29 academic articles (2019–2024) reveals heavy reliance on its data but minimal scrutiny of its commercial affiliations.
  • 2025-02-09 00:01:56 .. East Asia’s virtual celebrity industries have grown from niche ACG subcultures into mainstream entertainment, driven by government support, technological advances, and capital investment.
  • 2025-02-09 00:00:24 .. This study concludes that watching English VTubers on YouTube provides several benefits for 12th-grade students at a public high school in Indonesia, particularly in improving English listening skills, vocabulary, comprehension, and accent recognition.
  • 2025-02-08 23:59:32 .. Kobo Kanaeru, a popular Hololive Indonesia VTuber, was featured in Tokopedia’s WAR campaign, with a study showing that while her expertise, trustworthiness, and attractiveness influence consumer behavior, their individual effects are weak.
  • 2025-02-08 23:57:43 .. CodeBaby has been granted a patent for its Natural Language Avatar System, which integrates advanced natural language processing, real-time speech synthesis, and dynamic avatar animation to improve digital interactions.
  • 2025-02-08 23:56:50 .. IDFC FIRST Bank, in collaboration with Hyderabad-based Ikonz Studios, has expanded its use of Amitabh Bachchan’s AI avatar to 10 more branches across five cities after its initial launch at the bank’s Juhu Branch in Mumbai last year.
  • 2025-02-08 23:55:48 .. This study found that AI influencers on social media can shape how people see and interact with them based on four key features: how they look and sound (modality), how independent they seem (autonomy), how well they give advice (guidance), and how interactive they are (interactivity).
  • 2025-02-08 00:33:16 .. At CES 2025, industry leaders highlighted AI-driven digital humans and content generation in filmmaking, emphasizing their integration into Hollywood while advocating a hybrid approach that enhances, rather than replaces, human creativity.
  • 2025-02-08 00:32:05 .. Pearson’s Digital English Tutor in Mondly uses 10 AI-driven digital humans to enhance workplace communication through realistic scenarios, personalized feedback, and adaptive learning, proving effective in corporate training.
  • 2025-02-08 00:30:53 .. This study examines AI-XR integration through virtual avatars and AI-driven assistants, emphasizing their growing role in the metaverse for social, educational, and healthcare applications while highlighting research on enhancing their realism, autonomy, and responsiveness.
  • 2025-02-08 00:29:25 .. This paper explores AI integrity in the context of digital synthetic content and AI-generated humans, emphasizing trust concerns, the increasing realism of digital simulations, and the ethical principles of the EU’s 2024 AI regulations.
  • 2025-02-08 00:27:51 .. A job opportunity seeks an AI developer to create meeting avatars for real estate agents, featuring facial capture, voice synthesis, task automation, and CRM integration, with TCPA/GDPR compliance and a free demo.
  • 2025-02-08 00:26:13 .. A U.S.-based remote freelance opportunity seeks an AI/ML expert to develop real-time facial tracking and AI avatars for AR beauty try-ons, requiring deep learning and OpenCV expertise.
  • 2025-02-08 00:24:41 .. Ekaterina Uzunova, a researcher at Cradle, introduces DIGIREAL, a project on digital humans and digital transformations, with a focus on VHESPER, a new initiative exploring the psychological and social aspects of virtual humans.
  • 2025-02-08 00:23:21 .. Melbourne-based Yep AI has launched the Yep AI Digital Human, a multilingual AI chatbot with real-time lip-syncing and dynamic interactions, enhancing customer engagement by 45% in its partnership with Aus Solar Energy Group.
  • 2025-02-08 00:21:52 .. Chester County Court Administration has introduced AI-driven interactive kiosks at the Justice Center and Magisterial District Courts, providing court services, fine payments, and service links, with future expansion to libraries and Spanish translation planned.
  • 2025-02-08 00:20:30 .. This podcast features Alessandro Arezzo, a junior AI researcher, discussing AI-powered digital humans that communicate in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and their potential to improve accessibility for the deaf community.
  • 2025-02-08 00:19:10 .. Alexx Henry, CEO of BlueVishnu, presents his company’s mission to integrate 3D scanning and AI to create digital human co-pilots that provide actionable insights and facilitate transformative behavior changes through detailed digital doubles.
  • 2025-02-08 00:17:30 .. Jumbo Mana developed an AI-powered bilingual avatar of the Marquis de Lafayette, enabling real-time conversations, presented at the French Ambassador’s Residence and set for the AI Action Summit in Paris.
  • 2025-02-07 00:24:12 .. VNyan is a free and highly customizable 3D VTubing software for Windows that supports advanced tracking, custom animations, dynamic stages, and integration with multiple platforms, along with extensive model compatibility, physics-based animations, and external control options.
  • 2025-02-07 00:22:23 .. Warudo, a 3D VTubing software by Hakuya Labs, offers face and hand tracking, Twitch and YouTube integration, custom assets, C# plugins, and .vrm/.warudo support, making it a flexible tool for VTubers and companies.
  • 2025-02-07 00:19:59 .. AI-generated influencers are being used to spread right-wing disinformation ahead of the German elections, leveraging realistic visuals and speech to influence public opinion, with the video examining their creators, political ties, and electoral impact.
  • 2025-02-07 00:18:05 .. Host Menaka Raman-Wilms and online culture reporter Samantha Edwards discuss the rise of AI-generated influencers, their creation, operation, and impact on authenticity, marketing, and online engagement in the influencer industry.
  • 2025-02-07 00:16:47 .. Pocket RD is providing its AI avatar technology AVATARIUM Portable and Web3 BaaS solution Digital Double for KDDI’s limited-time Ponta Pass Station event, taking place from February 6-9, 2025, in Shibuya.
  • 2025-02-07 00:15:48 .. MicroCloud Hologram Inc. has announced the integration of the DeepSeek large model API into its Holographic Digital Human GPT, enhancing AI-driven conversational capabilities.
  • 2025-02-07 00:14:53 .. As traditional broadcast news declines due to audience shifts and eroding trust, AI-generated platforms like Channel 1 emerge as scalable alternatives, raising questions about their impact on journalism’s future.
  • 2025-02-07 00:13:36 .. The 9th Annual Virtual Reality and Healthcare Global Symposium will take place from February 27 – March 2, 2025, at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, Florida.
  • 2025-02-06 06:05:30 .. Series AI’s rapid expansion in AI-driven game development, backed by $28 million in funding, is creating job opportunities across production, marketing, art, and engineering.
  • 2025-02-06 06:03:19 .. NVIDIA is seeking a Solution Architect or Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI and Digital Humans to join its AI Enterprise Segment team in Santa Clara, California.
  • 2025-02-06 06:02:19 .. Gan.AI’s Studio is an AI video personalization platform enabling businesses to create customized videos with AI avatars, text-to-speech, and dubbing, used by major firms and backed by Sequoia and Google’s accelerator.
  • 2025-02-06 06:00:17 .. Digital Divas is a 2024 AI influencer creation platform that offers courses, resources, and a Discord community, manages three AI influencers, and sells an Instagram Mastery course, but has faced ethical criticism from Wired and HuffPost Greece.
  • 2025-02-06 05:58:16 .. German ad agency owner Marcus Schubert created the AI influencer Sophia for cost-effective marketing, raising concerns about misinformation, beauty standards, and regulation.
  • 2025-02-06 05:55:45 .. Mark Rabkin, Meta’s VP of VR and MR, is stepping down in March for family health reasons, with Ryan Cairns succeeding him and reporting to Vishal Shah, VP of Metaverse.
  • 2025-02-06 05:53:57 .. KrumbleTV, launched in summer 2024, is a social media-based series of surreal, satirical animated comedy sketches featuring digitally animated characters and talking animals, each lasting around two minutes.
  • 2025-02-06 05:52:57 .. Cinamon’s AI-powered video platform, CINEV, is designed to create and animate characters more efficiently by combining a 3D asset library, AI motion generation, and a filmmaking-focused language model.
  • 2025-02-06 05:51:41 .. Hologram Media Network (HMN), in collaboration with Proto Hologram, has launched the world’s first always-on holographic advertising network, featuring Proto Luma devices across 30 Simon malls nationwide, with plans to expand to 150 units in 2025.
  • 2025-02-06 05:49:53 .. For The Sims 25th anniversary, Will Wright told The New York Times that the game’s AI was inspired by losing his home in the 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm, observing ants, and designing SimAnt, leading to a system where objects broadcast needs, later refined to balance Sim autonomy.
  • 2025-02-06 05:47:33 .. Dotan Koren showcases how Accenture utilizes Embodied Conversational AI characters like Zeke, a Conversational AI Product Marketing Assistant, integrating Unity 3D, Convai, Reallusion, Blender, Adobe, and Adobe Substance 3D to create interactive marketing experiences.
  • 2025-02-04 21:24:45 .. NVIDIA Japan and Macnica have jointly established a consortium to promote digital humans using generative AI, aiming to create human-like AI with realistic voice, movement, and thought.
  • 2025-02-04 21:23:43 .. Omotion, a 3D virtual human R&D company, and DCCE&T, a global webtoon company, have partnered to develop 3D virtual humans and AR products based on webtoon characters.
  • 2025-02-04 21:22:46 .. The Virtual Tactile Human project aims to create a highly detailed 3D digital twin of patients, integrating structured and unstructured medical data for comprehensive healthcare applications.
  • 2025-02-04 21:21:29 .. Colossyan grew rapidly in 2024, with 35,000 business users, major US and UK expansion, a $22 million Series A, new AI avatar features, an enhanced API, and a workforce of 100.
  • 2025-02-04 21:19:45 .. Krafton is collaborating with OpenAI to integrate large language models into PUBG and inZOI, enhancing AI-powered cooperative characters for immersive, interactive gameplay, as demonstrated at CES 2025 with Nvidia.
  • 2025-02-04 21:18:29 .. OmniHuman-1 is a new AI model developed by Bytedance that can generate highly realistic human videos from just a single image and motion signals like audio or video.
  • 2025-02-04 21:17:34 .. NVIDIA is seeking an AI Digital Human Development Intern for its AI Technology Center in Hong Kong.
  • 2025-02-04 21:16:32 .. Neopets’ 2024 resurgence under CEO Dominic Law, marked by a threefold user growth since 2023, expands its virtual pet ecosystem through mobile games, interactive stories, licensing deals, and physical merchandise.
  • 2025-02-03 23:38:42 .. This guide explores the evolution of virtual beings, emphasizing digital presence maturity, visual communication, media engagement strategies, and the industry’s shift toward standardized systems while addressing differences between entertainment and real-world applications.
  • 2025-02-03 00:03:30 .. Virtual influencers are AI-driven marketing personas for social media, while the metaverse is an interactive digital environment, and this essay examines their distinct functions, and technological foundations.
  • 2025-02-02 23:41:38 .. MEET48 and SNH48 Group are launching MEET48.ai on February 7 as the world’s first AI-Agent UGC entertainment creator community, integrating all 736 members as AI Agents, debuting nine AI idols at launch, with full integration within two months.
  • 2025-02-02 23:37:56 .. This dissertation argues that traditional binary morality systems in games fail to reflect real-world moral complexity, demonstrating that NPCs with distinct values and evolving moral perspectives create more immersive, believable interactions and enhance faction dynamics.
  • 2025-02-02 23:37:00 .. This paper proposes a new framework for synthesizing avatar interactions by integrating advanced behavioral modeling, AI-driven decision-making, and user-driven customization to enhance realism and social engagement in digital environments.
  • 2025-02-02 23:36:03 .. Korea’s ‘K-Digital Heritage’ project integrates AI-powered digital humans into VR reconstructions of historical sites, with initiatives like Professor Park Jin-ho’s AI-enhanced The School of Athens allowing real-time interactions with historical figures using generative AI.
  • 2025-02-02 23:34:18 .. Takeshi Tateishi, CEO of SpeakBuddy, developed an AI English conversation app inspired by his struggles with English while working in foreign firms.
  • 2025-02-02 23:32:52 .. Mersus Technologies is an Irish virtual reality company specializing in VR training solutions through its flagship platform, Avatar Academy, which is available on the Meta Quest platform as of 2024.
  • 2025-02-02 23:31:40 .. Cantina, founded by Sean Parker, is a social platform featuring an advanced AI character creator that enables users to build, share, and interact with AI bots and friends across the internet.
  • 2025-02-02 23:30:49 .. This TikTok Creator for AI Avatar Chat App role is a part-time, remote content creation position with the potential to become full-time based on performance.
  • 2025-02-02 23:29:55 .. The Museum of African American History in Boston is unveiling an AI-powered hologram of Frederick Douglass at the African Meeting House for Black History Month, allowing visitors to see and interact with a digital recreation of the abolitionist.
  • 2025-02-01 23:47:13 .. Nanjing Silicon-Based Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. has applied for a patent titled A Method for Driving Digital Human Expression Generation with China’s National Intellectual Property Administration, filed on December 2024.
  • 2025-02-01 23:45:31 .. China Mobile Internet Co., Ltd. has applied for a patent titled Method for Generating Virtual Digital Humans, Electronic Devices, and Storage Media, published under CN 119379871 A, with a filing date of October 2024.
  • 2025-02-01 23:44:10 .. This paper explores the behaviors and engagement patterns of VTuber viewers on Bilibili, China’s leading livestreaming platform.
  • 2025-02-01 23:42:58 .. The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) is hosting a one-day Symposium on Digital Humans on May 28, 2025, at the British Computer Society (BCS) in London.
  • 2025-02-01 23:40:00 .. WWT developed Ellie, a multilingual digital human using NVIDIA ACE, built in five weeks for Disney’s DDAC with on-premises GPUs, Omniverse, Audio2Face, NLP, and NeMo Guardrails for secure, real-time interactions.
  • 2025-02-01 23:38:28 .. Genies is hiring a Lead Backend Engineer to develop scalable backend infrastructure for its avatar-focused developer platform, mobile experiences, and AI systems, requiring expertise in Golang, Python, Java, or C++.
  • 2025-02-01 23:36:30 .. D-ID is hosting a webinar on February 18, 2025, to showcase its upgraded AI Visual Agents, featuring enhanced interactivity, real-world applications, a live demo, and a Q&A with experts and customers.
  • 2025-02-01 23:34:54 .. Norman Badler will discuss ‘On Raising a Digital Human’ at the Penn Bookstore on March 18, exploring the development of digital virtual human models through his personal experiences and career in computer graphics.
  • 2025-02-01 23:33:17 .. People trust AI-powered digital characters more when they are intelligent, provide good recommendations, and have a human-like appearance, with digital humans fostering stronger trust than cartoon-like avatars.
  • 2025-02-01 07:33:28 .. Meta is hiring a Product Management Director for Codec Avatars within Reality Labs in Burlingame, California.
  • 2025-02-01 07:32:36 .. Vozo Video Translator is an AI-powered video translation and localization tool that enables users to generate, edit, and translate talking videos with AI, offering features such as dubbing, lip-syncing, voice cloning, and automated subtitles.
  • 2025-02-01 07:31:02 .. Tokyo is an ideal destination for VTuber fans, especially with Hololive Super Expo 2025 taking place at Makuhari Messe from March 8-9.
  • 2025-02-01 07:29:56 .. A recent survey by Nifty Kids found that VTuber has surpassed YouTuber as a preferred future profession among children in Japan.
  • 2025-02-01 07:28:31 .. Priyanka Rakshit noted that Ikonz Studios is behind the technology and expressed interest in seeing more companies and celebrities adopt similar AI-driven experiences.
  • 2025-02-01 07:26:52 .. The Virtual KEIBI System by SECOM, launched in January 2021, is the world’s first AI-powered security system featuring virtual security guards displayed on a mirror display.
  • 2025-02-01 07:26:04 .. Ukrainian entrepreneurs Daria Shapovalova and Natalia Modenova founded DressX in Los Angeles in 2020, developing a digital fashion platform that enables users to try on and purchase virtual clothing using AI and AR.
  • 2025-02-01 07:24:54 .. This article advocates for making AI-generated voices sound robotic using a ring modulator to ensure clear distinction from human speech, mitigating ethical and security risks like impersonation and manipulation.
  • 2025-02-01 07:23:31 .. This Oregon police department has implemented a virtual reality training system to enhance officer preparedness, focusing on de-escalation, crisis management, and decision-making through adaptive real-world scenarios.
  • 2025-02-01 07:21:27 .. This presentation highlights Huawei Cloud MetaStudio as an AI-powered virtual avatar platform, with Solution Architect Abdul Noor showcasing how Huawei’s advanced AI technologies drive digital content creation and industry innovation.
  • 2025-02-01 07:18:59 .. VRpatients adopts a phased crawl, walk, run approach to AI integration, balancing careful implementation with ongoing R&D, testing, and refinement to enhance learner competency, training experiences, and objective grading in healthcare education.
  • 2025-02-01 07:17:27 .. Speech Graphics CTO Michael Berger discusses his journey from gaming animation to AI-driven facial technology, focusing on speech-driven facial animation and the development of Rapport.