Meta’s Next-Gen Avatars Were Faked for Connect 2022
Digital Bodies Meta was busy burnishing its image problems last week at Connect 2022 event by introducing a state-of-the-art XR headset and new features for […]
Support our SXSW 2023 Proposals!
Digital Bodies We’d love to have your support for our SXSW 2023 proposals. This year, the Digital Bodies team submitted two proposals for SXSWedu and […]
Meta Adds Personal Boundaries for Virtual Avatars
Digital Bodies Meta’s new safety feature that adds personal boundaries for virtual avatars is welcome news. It creates a personal barrier around your avatar to […]
Sensorium’s AI-driven Avatars – Another Step Toward the Metaverse
Digital Bodies Sensorium’s AI-driven avatars are a new generation of virtual beings that bring us another step closer to the metaverse. The company was started […]
MetaHuman Creator – Epic Games Reveals Our Future Avatars
Digital Bodies We might get excited by the avatars in our current social VR platforms, such as AltspaceVR and Virbela, but they’re nothing compared to […]
Samsung’s Neon Project – Artificial Humans or Chatbots?
Digital Bodies Samsung’s Neon project was the talk of CES 2020 – no mean feat at a conference that boasts 4,000 exhibitors and over 200,000 […]
A Reflection on Self and Avatars in the Classroom
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels We live in a visual world, with each projection of self carefully constructed, projected and shared. We also live in a world where […]
IceBreakers, Avatars and Reflective Practice
The end of summer in the Northern hemisphere ushers in a new academic year filled with hopes, dreams and dreads. However, as I prefer to […]
Remarkable Developments in Facebook’s Lifelike Avatars
For all the progress in virtual reality, realistic avatars and social VR remain a fundamental challenge. It comes as no surprise that, Facebook’s lifelike avatars […]
Expressive Avatars Come a Step Closer
Back at OC5 conference in 2018, Oculus announced the launch of their “Expressive Avatars” by the end of the year. As the Oculus Blog put it, […]
David Kelly’s Curated L&D Content for the Week of 8/27/18
This week’s curated content includes links exploring the following: The importance of context in workflow learning Tips to improve your proofreading skills How to help […]
Gamify Your MOOC
Gamification and massive open online courses (MOOCs) are two of the biggest trends in education. The power of these tools in creating accessible, engaging educational […]
