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The Role of the Avatar in the Metaverse

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Using its lastest face-tracking tools on the Quest Pro, Meta promises to deliver avatars with greater realism, depth, and expression. Estonia’s Ready Player Me has been a leader in this technology with its interoperable, highly-bespoke avatars. They can also enable necessary interoperability between the metaverse’s many features.

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Meta makes fundraising easier ahead of Earth Day

Mashable VR

Meta has announced new fundraising tools and educational initiatives in honor of Earth Day — the global climate awareness holiday taking place on April 22 — including expanded Instagram Reels options for more than 30 countries to participate in digital fundraising. Tweet may have been deleted.

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Ready Player Me Raises $56M to Expand Cross-game Avatar Platform

Road to VR

Ready Player Me co-founder and CEO Timmu Tõke says the funds will allow the company to continue scaling its avatar system to make it “more flexible for developers, create new tools to help developers monetize with avatar assets, and build tools for individual creators to take part of the cross-game avatar marketplace.”

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