Avatars are the new “recovery”, with Meta trying lots of ways to show you how cool avatars are and will be in the future of the Metaverse – and how you really should be using them right now as an extension of your digital identity.
Meta’s latest avatar experience is new graphic cover images for your Facebook profile, so you can overlay your avatar on imagined scenes.
Cool isn’t it?
Now, not only can your profile picture be that of a cartoon character, as opposed to your real self, but you can also put that fake character in scenes from places you’ve never been that don’t. don’t even really exist.
Nothing more meaningful than a representation of yourself.
Skepticism aside, Facebook’s latest avatar addition could provide you with another way to establish your avatar as a representation of yourself and align your online activity with this persona, which will increasingly become the norm in VR and AR spaces.
Meta’s longer-term vision is that you will eventually conduct a wide range of activities in avatar form, with its latest 3D avatars now available for use on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and in its VR environment.
You can now also purchase avatar clothing and digital fashion accessories for your 3D character, which is another key opportunity in Meta’s avatar push.
As such, it makes sense that Facebook would also add more options for showcasing your avatar in the app – but again, will people align themselves so much with their avatar that they’ll want to create an image of it? background of their digital doppelganger in a non-real environment?
I suppose, in a future perspective, the idea could be that you can present your VR world and your creations in the same way, using a VR screenshot as a header image.
But right now, I’m not sure that’s anything – but still, Meta really wants you to see how cool your virtual self can be, and maybe some people will like that.
Seems a little weird to me, but maybe I’m old — though according to reports, I’m probably not as old as the most active Facebook users.
