Avatars, long used in video games, are coming to VR. This startup thinks you should be able to use the same one in different places.
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You can use the Ready Room demo in virtual reality with the HTC Vive to adjust your avatar’s facial features.
The Ready Room demo lets you choose your avatar’s gender, pick from two different body types (both somewhat cartoony), adjust a range of body traits like skin hue, weight, and head shape, and dial in such specific things as the shapes and spacing of eyes, nose, and lips. You can choose clothes, hairstyles, and sneakers, and you can keep a portfolio of the same avatar in different outfits or make several different ones.
Chris Madsen, Morph 3D’s director of augmented and virtual reality, says people tend to say they want to be about 80 percent themselves when it comes to avatars.
“I imagine people will have 12 or 20 virtual skins in their wardrobe they can pull out for different occasions,” says Madsen. “If you’re going to an ’80s party, why would you want to be stuck in a modern outfit?”
Source: Technologyreview