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The Amazing World of the Realistic Avatar
Step into the incredible realm of technology where imagination and reality seamlessly merge! In a world that constantly pushes boundaries, we find ourselves on the brink of a groundbreaking era: one where avatars no longer dwell solely in our wildest dreams but become astonishingly real. The Amazing World of the Realistic Avatar is an exploration into this awe-inspiring phenomenon that blurs the line between fiction and actuality. Join us as we dive headfirst into the mind-boggling advancements, jaw-dropping applications, and mind-expanding possibilities that await us in this brave new world – prepare to have your perception shattered and your excitement ignited!
You may have been browsing through your Whatsapp contact list and come across one of your buddies having a cartoon-like version of themselves on their profile pictures. This adorable guy is called a realistic avatar or an avatar photo.
By definition, it is a picture that is placed on your socials, role-playing game, or blog to basically tell people who you are. It’s like an ID card on the internet in place of your actual picture and certainly makes you seem more fun.
How Do I Create My Own Avatar?
There are many websites and apps that you can create your own avatar from. The process basically follows these steps;
Find an Avatar App You Like
Do some research on the options you have and choose the one that you like best or that has the best reviews so you’re sure they’ll deliver.
Open the App and Follow the Instructions
It may vary a bit depending on the app but basically, you need to choose an avatar style and the gender of your avatar.
Say Cheese
You will need to select the facial recognition function and then take a selfie so the avatar looks just like you. After you have taken the selfie, the app will automatically generate your avatar for you using AI video technology.
Save Your Work
Once you are satisfied the avatar looks just like you wanted it to, save your work and you can now use the avatar across all your socials.
AI avatars are the avatar photos in the corporate world.
What Are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Avatars?
They are 3D humanoid models, powered by AI of course, that can interact with users in a human-like manner. As if that wasn’t interesting enough, they can also maintain eye contact, answer questions as well as respond to the expressions of whoever they are interacting with – it’s all so fascinating I know.
If you really think about it, they are more advanced, higher quality chatbots. Their algorithms have it so that they can improve according to their experience with users.
A couple of technologies come to play to give us this technological marvel;
Natural language processing
This allows the avatars to process as well as understand voice commands.
Natural language generation
This technology is in a way the opposite of natural language processing. It helps the avatars to respond with voice using text to speech capabilities.
Advanced 3D modeling
It is used for visualization, animation of AI avatars as well as accurately depicting human expressions – not to mention generating facial movements.
AI and machine learning
AI and machine learning enable advanced rendering, detection of human emotions, and self-improvement of avatars based on previous experience.
Applications of Artificially Generated Avatars
Advertising
It certainly does sound fun making a commercial with an avatar instead of an actual actor. The good thing about avatars is you can customize them as much as you need to. To add to my point, shooting commercials could be impractical due to some factors like COVID-19 for instance and avatars are the solution to this.
Healthcare
Digital avatars have been making headway in the healthcare industry. Researchers have been exploring how patients react to their digital twins, which leads me to a side note; digital twins are just customized avatars that look exactly like you.
Digital avatars have been proven to help with teaching social skills and interaction to children with autism.
Training and Learning
Digital avatars could benefit businesses by helping them train their staff through online training and learning. These digital education avatars can help in boosting engagement and memory retention in virtual classrooms.
Communication
In this day and age, an AI-powered mobile phone allows you to create your own AI avatar using some emoji tools. These avatars are created by taking photos – kind of like how you make realistic avatars.
You can also use different emojis on your avatars while texting each other. It has helped in the breakthrough of personalized mobile apps that help in improving user experience.
What the Future Holds
Digital avatars have certainly been able to fill the void of not being able to physically interact, not to mention help out businesses a great deal when it comes to training staff. It is certainly exhilarating to just think about how much more AI will keep evolving in terms of how much digital avatars can do so we’ll just have to wait and see.