Meta announced that WhatsApp users can now express themselves using customizable avatars. Avatars can be used as your profile picture and 36 custom stickers to respond to your friends and family in a way that expresses your emotions. The company said that this new feature is available to users everywhere as of yesterday.
This will be the first time many people have created an avatar, Meta says. It’s clear that this feature can help people represent themselves and increase their privacy, even if they don’t want to use a real photo. Meta plans to expand its customization options in the future to include lighting, shading, hairstyle textures, and more.
Meta’s statement on the new avatars was rather brief, and didn’t specify whether Facebook avatars would be synced to WhatsApp or whether users were expected to create a new avatar from scratch. However, even if not initially, it can be predicted that in the future, the avatars will be synchronized and it will be transformed into a system that will not require users to spend time creating the same avatars again.
Meta is accustoming more people to the concept of avatars with this announcement. Avatars play a fundamental role in Meta’s vision of the metaverse. Bringing avatars to WhatsApp could make people more familiar and comfortable with avatars and more comfortable accepting avatars as Meta tries to connect more people to the metaverse.
To use avatars on WhatsApp, you need to wait for the application to receive an update, and then find an option to set your avatar within the application.
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