Extra pictures of the upcoming Meta Avatars graphics overhaul have emerged.
VR fanatic Luna noticed that when trying to edit their avatar within the Meta Horizon cell app, many individuals see a popup with three slides selling the overhaul as “touchdown quickly”. UploadVR examined this and might affirm the popup seems.
Again in July, Luna additionally noticed that the overhaul was being examined by some Meta staff, noticing that their Horizon profiles present a totally completely different avatar model to the present Meta Avatars.
The overhaul was first introduced with a pre-rendered mockup by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Join 2022 two years in the past. On the time he stated the overhaul was coming in 2023, however that clearly did not pan out.
What Meta Avatars did get final 12 months was legs, in Horizon House and Horizon Worlds no less than, a major replace given they’d beforehand been extensively ridiculed for less than together with the higher physique.
The SDK for third-party apps acquired legs too in December, however they at present aren’t animated so builders must implement this manually, an arduous process none have but undertaken.
Meta will probably formally announce the brand new overhauled avatars at Join 2024, which can happen on Wednesday and Thursday.