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Meta Avatars Get a Major Makeover With New Body Types, Poses & AI-driven Clothing Styles

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Jul 31, 2025

Meta is giving its Avatars another big upgrade, offering users finer control over things like face shape, body part sizes, hair, makeup and more.

Avatars are integrated across the gamut of Meta’s platforms, including Horizon Worlds, Home and Workrooms on Quest and mobile, and across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.

Now, users can choose from dozens of new body types and customizable features, including things like shoulders, hips, and biceps. A new body preview mode is also there, letting users adjust their frame before customizing with outfits.

Notably, the Avatar face editor is also getting a boost, with new parametric controls for customizing things like jawlines, cheek fullness, and facial depth. Additionally, Meta says it’s added 18 standing poses, over 50 new emotes, and dozens of new clothing options tailored to fit all body types.

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And to style your avatar, a new AI-powered style tool is launching too, which lets Horizon mobile app users generate new outfit ideas via text prompt or randomization, allowing users to then manually fine tune those creations. The function is only available for people ages 13+ in the US and Canada to start.

Meta says it’s initially rolling out that bit of the update gradually, which also means there should be more styles and features added over time.

Rogue Transfer

The disproportional bodies & features really don't interest me. As an adult, I don't want to be a Pixar 'The Incredibles' character. The eyes look dead and being so big, that really magnifies the immersion-breaking nature of the avatars.

The detail levels are good-looking, though I wonder if these are higher quality renders compared to what is available in VR?

Still, the big elephant in the room is the fact that after many years, Meta's avatars are still restricted to purely human ones. No option to be a mechanical robot(as they showed in an aspirational video at Connect years ago), or any other type of avatar. This is the biggest pitfall they've boxed themselves into.

We've seen again-and-again, that it's more fun & playful to be an avatar that's not mundane and standardised. Variety is the spice of life! Even more so for social VR(even though men do tend to seem to prefer being female anime characters(not for me, personally) and Meta will likely never allow).

They're kind-of stuck, until they break the traditions, and VR really doesn't need to be traditional. It's its strongest aspect, to transcend far beyond standardisation.
- XRC
  
  I'm totally digging my VR Chat Avatar:-
  
  powersuit style mechanical mech body piloted by a toy rabbit operating hand controls
- Hana
  
  Meta now does have non-human form avatars. You can unlock via quest completions or purchase.
- ichigo
  
  "even though men do tend to seem to prefer being female anime characters" –
  
  I think this is more prevalent on VRChat with corporation guidelines that cultivate such behavior. I play VRchat and it's extremely hard to find a FREE male humanoid avatar that works and don't look feminazied in some way. But if i looked for a female humanoid i get 1000+, within 1 minute of looking.
  
  Socially what's more interesting is the amount of females that don't play male characters VS the percentage of males that play female. And certain type of avatars that females choose despite what we are told (there not fat…).
  
  I personally think this is Online and offline worlds bleeding together as an indication of REAL issues not misinformation that's been perpetrated for years.
  
  I remember an online experiment where they would test female characters in World Of Warcraft to see if they got bullied more than males….Instead it was found that "people" would give them lots of Gold, Gear and items all unsolicited and people more willing to help them.
  
  Conclusion: The experiment highlighted gender bias and social dynamics in online gaming spaces, showing how perceived gender can influence player behavior.
  
  (I would guess and bet that competitive & merit based games like COD would be a little different here and an exception)
Brilliant average

Seems like a nice upgrade.
Hans Karlsson

Viewed from Japan, Meta's avatars look sooo amerrrrican :) And they can't take their shoes off, so they can't go inside in Japan – but do it anyway in the Japanese Quest home environment. Boots on the tatami mats! Horrific.
- ichigo
  
  yes very diverse and a little round lol :)
  
  Although i see a little Anime in them…..(big eyes, pointy nose and a chin)
  - Ondrej
    
    That's not anime. That's just western cartoon style.
    Let's not forget that anime artstyles were actually inspired by Disney's Bambi etc, so it came full circle.
Adrian Meredith

Finally you can make a male avatar not just bearded ladies
- VRDeveloper
  
  That was very frustrating.
  - Jonathan Winters III
    
    Yes Meta is quite "woke" and to see actual improvement away from that is a good thing indeed.
Sven Viking

Wow, they actually fixed them! Now they just need a smugness slider for the facial expressions.
Derek Kent

This is well and good but you don't even do anything with these avatars. What's the point? Nobody uses Horizon and you still can't invite friends into your home space to hang out/watch movies etc
ichigo

wow i can see the difference between them….are we finally moving past "Body 1 & Body 2" corporate ideology.
Jonathan Winters III

Great, if I could read the article. The new website template here has broken overflowing text all over the place.
JB1968

I’m getting disgusting Sims-like vibes from this.