Originally Broadcast: January 18, 2022
I'm starting my project to upload myself to the Metaverse. Eventually I'll construct my own virtual world, and use AI to make my avatar interact with people when I'm not there. If you'd like to follow along, this is part 1. I show how I took my 2D hand-illustrated avatar image, uploaded it to Ready Player Me (which automatically generated a 3D model from the image). I then show how I can use the same avatar in both Animaze (a live streaming platform) and VRChat (a social metaverse that works on PC and Oculus). In the past, platforms like Roblox and Facebook gave us avatar systems to use, but we're starting to have the ability to take our avatars with us.
More of my ideas can be found...
...at this blog, Building the Metaverse: https://medium.com/building-the-metaverse
...on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jradoff
...and at my live game services platform company, Beamable: https://beamable.com
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Jon Radoff: This is my project to upload myself to the Metaverse. Let me show you how I'm doing this. I started with a beautiful 2D avatar that Marvel and DC comic book artist Juan Doe made for me. I uploaded this to Ready Player Me. It's a cross platform service for 3D avatar. Normally you'd start with a photo, but this work just fine with my avatar image. Next, I imported this avatar into Animes, which is a product for live streaming with a 3D model. It can even take input from your iPhone camera. Does automatic face tracking match my expressions to the avatar? I didn't need to do any work at all in a 3D modeling system or rigging whatsoever. Everything from the Ready Player Me avatar just worked. The power of avatars really comes to life when you can use your avatar in different systems. Platforms like Roblox have done this inside for a while, but until recently we really haven't been able to take our avatars with us. This is me inside VRChat. In the next part, I'll build a virtual world for my avatar and bring them to life with AI.