Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a ...
Analytics Insight

Netflix’s Ready Player Me Deal Signals Push Toward Persistent Game Identities

Netflix has acquired Ready Player Me, an Estonia-based avatar technology company, to build unified identities across Netflix Games. Netflix said subscribers wil ...
The Malaysian Reserve

transcosmos and V, Inc. launch metaverse creator services for VRChat via Geek Jack, transcosmos’s cross-border e-commerce site for entertainment items

MODE-SAPO!—creator support services for VRChat—streamlines non-creative tasksTOKYO, Dec. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- transcosmos operates Geek Jack, a ...
TechCrunch

Netflix acquires gaming avatar maker Ready Player Me

After shifting its gaming strategy to focus more on games played on the TV, Netflix announced it’s acquiring Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform based in Estonia. The streamer said Friday it ...
IGN

Galaxy brain.

James Cameron has dismissed criticism of 3D and high frame rate in his Avatar movies, pointing to their enormous box office success as evidence that audiences don’t mind it, and explaining why he ...
Gizmodo

Everything to Remember Before ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’

With James Cameron's latest blockbuster on the way, it's time to refresh yourself on the world of Pandora. Reading time 5 minutes After waiting 13 years for James Cameron to release a second Avatar, a ...
The Verge

New York’s new law forces advertisers to say when they’re using AI avatars

Two bills signed Thursday deal with how AI-generated people — real or entirely synthetic — can appear in commercial content. Two bills signed Thursday deal with how AI-generated people — real or ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Sigourney Weaver Talks ‘Avatar,’ Legacy of ‘Alien’ Films: “Amazing to Me How Influential Ripley Has Been”

The iconic actress reflected on her career at Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Film Festival. By Abid Rahman International Editor, Digital In additioin to receiving a Red Sea Honoree Award for her ...
Road to VR

Google is Rolling out Photorealistic ‘Likeness’ Avatars on Android XR to Compete with Apple’s ‘Personas’

Google is starting to roll out new photorealistic avatars which they call “Likeness”. Similar to Apple’s Personas, Likeness avatars are generated by scanning a user’s face, then animated it with input ...
GitHub

GPU particle boilerplate code and examples for VRChat worlds

This package provides base/boilerplate code and examples for GPU particles intended for use in VRChat worlds. They could also work in non-VRChat projects, or could work on VRChat avatars depending on ...
nerdist

James Cameron Banned Generative AI Use in AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

When it comes to James Cameron, let’s just say people tend to have opinions. Mostly, because he’s not ever shy about sharing his, often leading to controversy. But here’s a James Cameron opinion that ...