The Achilles’ heel of most early avatar platforms has often been the ambition to build a consistent cross-platform avatar system that functioned as its own metaverse. They also already have a full, diverse system of avatar art that developers can lean on out of the box if they so desire.įacemoji believes that more game-makers want to easily build their own avatar systems but don’t necessarily want to plug into other networks. The startup’s lightweight solution leans on its own rendering pipeline, with the team noting that most other players in the space lean on Unity plugins that many developers don’t want to deal with. Facemoji has raised a $3 million seed round led by Play Ventures, with participation from Twitter and Roosh Ventures, alongside some angel investors. Apple is increasingly interested in avatar representations through Memoji, Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be a metaverse company and platforms like Roblox, where users enter a virtual world and buy accessories for their character, have never been more popular.įacemoji is building a plug-and-play tech platform to help game and app developers put avatar systems into their apps with the startup’s SDK. Avatar startups have come and gone over the past few years, but the future that many of the entrepreneurs behind them originally imagined has proven more or less accurate.
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