Facebook-parent Meta is taking another step towards its Metaverse ... AI model designed to enhance the realism and interactivity of digital avatars. This advancement can lead to more lifelike ...

Being the reachless technology a few decades ago, today the metaverse is the hub of social digital interaction. This is an interactive virtual space where people can experience the lives of their ...

Avatar generation is the production of virtual beings via generative AI for fast creation and deployment of virtual and interactive characters ... the back end of the metaverse.

While the Meta VR arm still exists, VR itself remains a niche and not anywhere close to the metaverse that was promised. Meta, of course, is now pivoting mainly to AI like everyone else.

The AI characters will serve as “an extension ... The company has put billions of dollars into getting the Metaverse, its virtual reality platform where users interact with one another ...

But things got worse for Meta when people turned up a few of their “test” AI characters on Friday ... actually find yourself nostalgic for the metaverse.

Meta has also been releasing many of its AI models for free ... for fully embodied agents in the Metaverse, leading to more lifelike NPCs, democratization of character animation, and new types ...

Meta’s latest innovation Movie Gen takes AI-generated videos a step further. But will it help creators or overwhelm the industry?