Not ready to show your real face in a Messenger or Instagram video call? You now have the option of replacing it with your Meta avatar. Meta avatars are virtual ...

Meta has announced its new Avatars Store that will sell the equivalent of cosmetic microtransactions that customize users' appearance. In a bid to further monetize its billions of active Facebook ...

If you want to show up as your virtual self, now you can. If you want to show up as your virtual self, now you can. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in ...

"Major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics coming soon. I'll share more at Connect. Also, I know the photo I posted earlier this week was pretty basic -- it was taken very quickly to celebrate a ...

Fire and Ash" will be released in German cinemas. On Meta Quest, you can see a film scene with a great 3D effect beforehand.

If there was one piece of news other than the new Quest Pro virtual reality headset that really drew attention at this week’s Meta Connect, it was legs. Finally, after over a year of VR avatars that ...

The latest update to Meta Quest's VR avatars is the arrival of their legs, complementing their entire appearance when represented inside the virtual world via the Quest Home platform. Gone are the ...

It’s been about 20 years since the life-simulator game, Second Life, came out. Nintendo Miis first emerged on the scene more than a decade and a half ago. We live in an era where near-photo-realistic ...

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Meta announced today that users can now use their avatars to answer and make video calls on Instagram and Messenger. The company says the new functionality will allow users to take part in video calls ...