Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

A Digital Avatar Made with ONE SELFIE

28 Apr 2023 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:56

An AI platform turns a single selfie into a full 3D avatar in about a minute for under $2. The system automatically normalizes textures, rigs the model, and outputs an animatable character you can view from any angle and manipulate in real time.

Chapters

We create digital humans from just one selfie in one minute for less than $2. So creating great avatars usually is extremely expensive, very time-consuming, a very sequential process. But what we did is we created an AI-based platform that allows to take the selfie, upload it into the cloud, and automatically get back in one single step a full digital asset. It's completely 3-dimensional. I have a demo to show you. So we do also computer vision and image processing. We normalize the whole texture so then the digital actor— character can adapt.
Can you turn him to a profile?
Full body, we can change it. This is all 3D and I'm just manipulating it myself. Also animated, so it's already fully rigged.
And that one— yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So pretty much what we're trying to do is really anyone that needs digital characters, they'll come to us.