The metaverse has just taken an important step towards its formation. From Meta, a company he runs mark zuckerbergannounced that Facebook avatars will be usable during Messenger video calls.
While you are in a video chat of the messaging service, originally from Facebook, you can appear as one of the Avatars that you created on your user. I agree With what can be seen in the videos, it manages to capture your reactions and emulates them instantly.
This means that you are yourself in the video, but the people you interact with are seeing the avatar. It is a gigantic step towards the development of the metaverse.
To this function we only have to add that video calls, instead of cell phones, are made through VR glasses and we would be submerged in a digital universe.
“It’s as if it were a filter on your camera or the app,” says Meta to report on the news on their platforms. In addition to Messenger, this option will also be enabled for Instagram video calls.
Likewise, the company announces the arrival of photographic and animated stickers for the chats of both messengers. Within the universe of stickers, a Street Fighter 6 package stands out, a partnership that Meta made with the famous video game company Capcom.
In this same order of stickers, social stickers arrive. By tagging another user, they can be added to stories by doing activities together, high-fives or dancing together, according to the review. xataka.