Apple wants its Animoji and Emoji — and other types of avatars — to be able to be displayed in 3D, as evidenced by a newly granted patent (number US 12287913 B2) for “presenting avatars in ...

Over a year ago, sports giant Nike set out to redefine its membership program and bring a new experience to shoppers on the Chinese e-commerce platform Tmall. At the core of its plan were avatars, or ...

As part of visionOS 26, Apple is overhauling the Personas feature for Apple Vision Pro users. Personas are the 3D avatars the system uses during FaceTime calls when the user is wearing the headset.

Nvidia is open sourcing Audio2Face, its AI tool that generates facial animations for 3D avatars based on audio input.