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Avatar Reality is a Honolulu-based game studio founded by Henk B. Rogers and Kazuyuki Hashimoto in December 2006. They develop an advanced virtual realm platform aimed at bringing together individuals worldwide on a grandiose level. [ 1 ]
VRChat is an online virtual world platform created by Graham Gaylor and Jesse Joudrey [2] and operated by VRChat, Inc. The platform allows users to interact with others with user-created 3D avatars and worlds.
June 2009 – Avatar Reality started closed beta testing. September 2, 2009 – Reached "open beta" status, with version 0.5822. [6] December 17, 2009 – version 0.6589 of the beta software was released. This version added a "places browser", which allows selective downloading of city data, and Flash functionality within the player client.
NeosVR is a free-to-play, massively multiplayer online, virtual reality application created by Frooxius and operated by Solirax. It was released for free on Microsoft Windows via Steam on May 4, 2018, with support for several VR headsets.
Sinespace has hosted several in-world talk shows featuring live audiences of avatars with notable people in the arts and technology, who also appear in avatar form, including video game designer Warren Spector, [9] VR pioneer Jaron Lanier, [10] MMO pioneer Richard Bartle, [11] and Hugh Welchman, [12] producer of the Oscar-nominated animated feature Loving Vincent.
Forte released the VFX1, a PC-powered virtual reality headset that same year. In 1999, entrepreneur Philip Rosedale formed Linden Lab with an initial focus on the development of VR hardware. In its earliest form, the company struggled to produce a commercial version of "The Rig", which was realized in prototype form as a clunky steel ...
Each participant is represented by a detailed avatar that is the graphical representation of the user, including speech-driven facial animations and motion-driven body animations. Sansar supports both virtual reality headsets (including the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive ) and Windows computers, and is free to use, with advanced features available ...
Other avatar systems exist, such as on Gaia Online, WeeWorld, Frenzoo or Meez, where a pixelized representation of a person or creature is used, which can then be customized to the user's wishes. [19] There are also avatar systems (e.g. Trutoon) where a representation is created using a person's face with customized characters and backgrounds.