Ready Player Me tests a Generative AI Avatar Creator

Ready Player Me is launching an experimental test in which players will be able to use generative AI to create their own avatars.

The combination of user-generated content and generative AI is becoming a popular trend in gaming.

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Ready Player Me Labs is here, giving you early access to our experimental projects & features!
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First up: an AI-powered avatar creator, using Dall-E to generate unique textures based on your prompts! 🎨🧑‍💼 #readyplayerme pic.twitter.com/oEZRwJnDWw
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The avatar outfit customization feature is a project of Ready Player Me Labs, a new division dedicated to testing new ideas, Timmu Tõke, CEO of Ready Player Me, said in an interview.

A free beta version of the avatar creator

Ready Player Me is offering a free beta version of its avatar creator, which allows users to generate unique outfits using the company’s DALL-E generative art platform.

By entering descriptive text, users can generate customized outfits for their avatars. The company aims to become the leading provider of digital avatars for the metaverse and has already signed up for more than 6,000 apps and games.

“Artificial intelligence has it all to become the ultimate innovative partner. It will allow us to create a new definition of ID. It can curate, shape and facilitate the creative technique, allowing human creativity to discover new horizons,” Ready Player Me wrote on Twitter.
“We just launched RPM Labs, which is the experimental part of the product where we test all kinds of new features, and this is the first release,” Tõke said. “Generative AI will totally transform the way we create avatars and 3D content. Our goal is to stay ahead of the curve and understand how things are changing, so we can change with them.”

The labs are the company’s latest initiative to explore new features and advances in avatar customization before making them available to all platform users and developers.

The first version of the labs is an experimental version of the company’s avatar creator that uses artificial intelligence to customize and stylize the textures of avatar costumes that can be shared on social networks.

It is also the first time that the company has made it possible to customize individual outfits, one of the most requested features by users.

The new version showcases the creative power of AI and its digital customization capabilities. Thanks to Dall-E, the platform generates textures based on user input, further enhancing the design experience.

“Giving users full control over how they want to appear in the metaverse has always been the most important thing for Ready Player Me. We want those using our avatars to feel digitally represented in the style and fashion they want,” says Tõke. “To achieve diversity of styles and sets, we think artificial intelligence is very important to unlock new workflows and processes that allow our team to scale and create services and tools for users and developers to create things we couldn’t imagine.”

Tõke says the goal is to leverage artificial intelligence to make it more fun to create avatars of your own and push many more people, not just 3D artists, to get creative with new tools.

Ready Player Me Labs will be offered free to the public and will be used to test new features before making them available to platform users.

The company plans to continue adding new experimental features to its Labs, such as artificial intelligence-based avatar styling, gender-neutral body types, various body shapes, and preset age options.

The Labs will also host new test features for developers using Ready Player Me’s avatar builder in their applications, including advancements to the avatar API and the Unity and Unreal SDKs.