Outside the 21st century. People are increasingly adapting to communication in social networks and instant messengers.

And those very social networks are used in communication between people. Back in the summer of 2022, VKontakte launched the vmoji tool – these are digital avatars created according to specific types and likeness. Some analogue of Memoji from Apple, available only for different files.

The service found its audience in six months and grew greatly. Already more than 8 million people choose to use vmoji digital avatars for communication and self-expression.

Let’s check what it is and how to use it.

What is vmoji

Wmoji – These are personalized digital avatars that any user of the social network can create.

The new digital avatar is the first step in the development of the VKontakte reality. He will become a guide in the new world and help erase the boundaries between people. Also in the future, the avatar will replace the user during video conferences, if, for example, the quality of the network does not allow the transmission of a video image.

— Alexander Tobol, technical director of VKontakte

To create them, you need to upload a photo or take a selfie. The neural networks will independently model the avatar so that it is as similar as possible to the person recognized in the image.

How to create your own vmoji. We are already infected

This is a quick process that doesn’t take long.

1. Open a dialogue in VK Messenger with anyone (you can also do this in scary posts, clips) and click on the emoji icon

2. In the very bottom line, look for a picture of a person’s face in a frame. He is what we need

3. Choose one of the options for generating an avatar (photo now, from a profile photo, from a gallery or manually)

Then it remains only to personalize the vmoji for yourself. It can completely customize the face, add piercings, headwear, glasses, change clothes and so on. There are a lot of customization options, there is a solution for everyone.

In my experience, generating from a “fresh” selfie doesn’t work that well. Due to various external lesions, certain facial features may be incorrectly recognized by neural networks.

The best turn will be to download a ready-made selfie, where the face takes up most of the screen and is good in the future. If he finds himself superfluous in the opinion of AI objects, such as glasses, then he takes them on his own and finishes the image at his discretion. Keep in mind.

Further, if suddenly something does not suit you, you can edit the avatar manually. Fortunately, the toolkit is extensive and allows you to do this.

Here is the result when I took a photo in nature time:

And here is the result when I uploaded an already normal selfie:

In the first case, the system generally made another face. But in the second it is already more like the truth.

This is how the process of creating an avatar from scratch looks like:

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There are a few more possibilities here. You can customize the shape of the face, eyes, eyebrows and so on. There are many examples, I think everyone will find something to their liking.

And yes, while vmoji are not 3D heads like Apple’s Memoji, they do have their own recognizable style available across platforms. Sent to the computer, the Android user normally saw what you sent him and how the digital avatar speaks instead of you.

What are vmoji for?

Avatars are different in different VKontakte services.

From them you can make, for example, your own stickerpack. And also since December, the social network is allowed to use them while making video calls.

Basic set of vmoji stickers available for free. There are also paid premium features: for example, you can add features to empower images or buy an additional sticker pack with added emotions (now, by the way, it will cost 3 votes instead of 10).

If we talk about VK Calls, then vmoji replaces corporate animation. You can use the camera if you don’t want to “light up” your place.

By the way, this is what it looks like:


The technology uses a neural network that, in the nature of time, turns into the speech of the speaker during her lips movement. That is the character’s mouth motor depending on what you say.

At the same time, the avatar itself also moves so that the conversation does not look “soulless”.

A purely metaverse is being developed in Russia, and this is just the beginning

Looking to the last years of the metaverse, the emergence and spread of digital avatars looks like a smart move.

They help people to get closer at a distance. Especially for those who do not like to communicate via video. This tool will introduce a person for himself, and he will be able to communicate more calmly with other people.

It’s not just that the developed technology companies of the world make purchases on digital avatars. I am sure that vmoji in its current form is just the beginning of the journey.






Source: Iphones RU

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