Custom avatars in social VR add a lot of fidelity of identity expression and creative flair in applications like VRChat or High Fidelity. Morph3D is a custom avatar solution that offers a number of free avatars within VRChat, but...

A broad team of graphics researchers, universities, and technology companies are showcasing the latest research into digital human representation in VR at SIGGRAPH 2017. Advanced capture, rigging, and rendering techniques have resulted in an impressive new bar for the...

Betty Mohler is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, and she had some keen insights on the nature of the uncanny valley being connected to expectations in my previous interview with her. I caught up...