Tag Archives: Avatar

Converting Ready Player Me Avatars for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on October 3, 2022 by Ai Austin

This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player Me avatars through Blender with the (paid) Bento Buddy addin into Second Life and OpenSim to travel across the Hypergrid. Note that a current Bento Buddy … Continue reading →

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SwiftXR – Resources

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Ai Austin

SwiftXR lets a user create a project, drag and drop 3D objects into it, personalize it, and deploy cross-platform 3D, WebAR, and WebVR experiences. A basic project can be tried with an initial 5 credits given when you first register … Continue reading →

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Ready Player Me Fashion

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Ai Austin

Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) allows the creation of cross platform avatars that can be exported in .gltf format for use or conversion to a range of virtual worlds and metaverse platforms and many other purposes. A range of clothing, outfits … Continue reading →

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aiaustin.readyplayer.me

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Ai Austin

This blog post describes experiments with embedding the Ready Player Me Avatar Creator into an application. Initially I wanted to create a reliable and repeatable workflow to take Ready Player Me avatars into Second Life or OpenSim. This process used … Continue reading →

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Using Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Ai Austin

This blog post is replaced by a later one here since developments have taken place in Ready Player me and the Bento Buddy plugin for Blender. This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player … Continue reading →

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Parallel by Tommy Hilfiger

Posted on August 21, 2022 by Ai Austin

Matching Virtual and In Real Life Outfits by Tommy Hilfiger – https://www.paralleltommyhilfiger.com/ Outfits Redeemed in Wardrobe

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Make Avatar – Resources

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Ai Austin

This blog post is to provide resources and access links for Make Avatar (MakeAvatar™) by Haptic Monkey – a tool to create an avatar and its clothing which can be exported as a JSON (.json) file or to .glb (binary … Continue reading →

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Ready Player Me – Resources

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Ai Austin

Cross-game Avatar Platform for the Metaverse – https://readyplayer.me/ Based on a selfie or start out from scratch. Customize your avatar Export your avatar in .glb (the binary, textures included form of the glTF 3D data exchange format). Use the avatar … Continue reading →

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Abba Avatars

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Ai Austin

50 years after their initial formation and 40 years after their last performances together, Swedish super-group Abba are back with a new album and a virtual reality concert planned to start in London’s Olympic Park in May 2022. Avatars created … Continue reading →

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Blender Avatar Rigging – Simple Guide

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Ai Austin

Update 17-Apr-2021: Ada Radius has improved the armatures and documentation and has removed the sample armatures in RuthAndRuth/Reference/Ada Radius that are referred to below. Look instead to use SLAvatar.blend in Ada Radius’s GitHub RuthAndRoth References area. The readme gives the … Continue reading →

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