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Meta to introduce Facebook's bitmoji-style avatars to WhatsApp: Reports

Social media giant Facebook's Bitmoji-style avatars, which earlier invaded Instagram and Messenger, are now also coming to Whatsapp.According to The Verge, a report from WABetaInfo suggests that WhatsApp is rolling out support for customizable avatars in the latest 2.22.23.9 beta on Android, but only for some users.Those with access to the feature will see a new 'Avatar' category in their settings menu that they can use to customize the digital version of themselves.Similar to Meta's other apps, WhatsApp will then generate a sticker pack with the avatar in various poses, which users can use to express themselves when messaging family and friends.This feature was first spotted by WABetaInfo last month but now it's actually rolling out to users. It's unclear when WhatsApp will roll out the feature to all users on Android, or when it plans on bringing the feature to iOS, reported The Verge.Meta first introduced avatars on Messenger and the News Feed in 2019 before they became available ..

RIL becomes first Indian company to post earnings call on metaverse

The RIL metaverse was produced in partnership with GMetri, a no-code metaverse creation platform. One doesn't need to wear an AR/VR headgear to access it

Instagram introduces new feature to protect users from abuse: Details here

The company is starting to test automatically turning on Hidden Words for Creator accounts

Meta starts ad campaign against Apple's iMessage to promote Whatsapp

Recently, the Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp had released the ability to add up to 1,024 participants to groups, for some beta testers

Flipkart unveils Flipverse, a virtual shopping experience in metaverse

The e-commerce firm has partnered with Web3 entertainment firm eDAO for the initiative where consumers can discover products in photorealistic virtual destinations and shop on Flipkart App

Flipkart partners with eDAO for virtual shopping experience in metaverse

Homegrown e-commerce platform Flipkart announced that it has partnered with Polygon-incubated organisation eDAO to launch a metaverse space, Flipverse

WhatsApp shares protocols for platform users to prevent account from ban

According to WhatsApp's monthly user safety report, over 2.3 million Indian accounts were banned in the month of August this year

India and the industrial metaverse

The images inside the metaverse can be interactive and powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and edge computing, while being connected by 5G speeds.

Meta's social VR platform Horizon Worlds struggling to woo users

Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly struggling to gain and keep users on its social virtual reality (VR) platform called Horizon Worlds - its biggest bet to fulfil its $10 billion metaverse dream.

After US, Instagram brings age verification options to India: How it works

The new options enable age verification on Instagram through supported documents or recorded selfie video. In lieu of new options, the previous social vouching option has been deprecated

Microsoft brings animated avatars to 'Teams' software in metaverse push

Earlier this week, Microsoft and Meta partnered to bring Microsoft Teams to the Quest headsets soon

It's hard for Meta's virtual-reality avatars to have legs, says Zuckerberg

Why is it so hard to build a metaverse avatar a visual representation of ourselves in the digital world that walks on two legs? I think everyone has been waiting for this," said a cartoonish digital version of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, unveiling his new avatar legs and jumping up and down at a virtual-reality event Tuesday. "But seriously, legs are hard. Which is why other virtual reality systems don't have them either. Early avatar models introduced by Meta, as well as Microsoft, have been ridiculed for appearing as legless, waist-up bodies floating around their virtual worlds. That's in part because tech companies have been eager to show off their progress in building out virtual-reality environments while still working on the technical challenges of making avatars more human-like and realistic. Meta renamed itself from Facebook last year in hopes of jumpstarting its corporate transformation into a provider of metaverse experiences for work and play. Zuckerberg described legs a

Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 1 unveiled as Meta Quest Pro's chipset

It also supports 8K 60fps 360-degree video, 'concurrent perception' technologies, including head, hand, and controller tracking, 3D reconstruction, automatic room mapping, and high pixel density

Zuckerberg loses over 119 mn followers on Facebook, less than 10k left now

Several users of Meta's Facebook are complaining losing majority of their followers on the social media platform due to unknown reasons. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has lost over 119 million followers which has brought down his follower count to below 10,000. "Facebook created a tsunami that wiped away my almost 900,000 followers and left only 9000 something on the shore. I kind of like Facebook's comedy," exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen tweeted. When contacted, a Meta spokesperson said, We're aware that some people are seeing inconsistent follower count on their Facebook profiles. We're working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Microsoft, Meta announce partnership to deliver immersive experiences in VR

Microsoft and Meta have partnered to deliver immersive experiences in VR. This collaboration will bring Teams and Microsoft's other productive tools to VR headset

Metaverse in India: The challenge of buying land and painting houses

VR headsets are gradually becoming somewhat accessible, with an Oculus Go priced at Rs 22,000. Several start-up founders say they are also developing software for laptops and mobile devices.

Meta launches metaverse-ready VR headset Quest Pro at $1500: What's new

Meta partnered with Microsoft to bring work and productivity tools for Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2 from next year, including apps for Microsoft Windows 365 and Microsoft Teams

Meta wants you to work in virtual reality - here's what that's like

Meta Platforms Inc has made it clear that it wants to infiltrate the business world with virtual reality technology

Global metaverse market likely to reach $996 bn in 2030 with 39% CAGR

The global metaverse market is expected to reach $996 billion in 2030, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 39.8 per cent

Meta allows users to report bugs in social metaverse app Horizon Worlds

Meta has allowed the users of its social metaverse app Horizon Worlds to report bugs on the platform with ease.