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Twitter Bans Animated GIF Avatars
Amid all the profile design changes and new policies Twitter has implemented in the past six months, one of the few saving graces is that people could still use animated GIFs as avatars — until now.
How To Turn Your Twitter Avatar Into An Animated GIF
If you’ve been watching Twitter lately, more and more people are using animated Twitter avatars. They’re eye-catching and cool, but how do you make them? It’s not complicated, but as our friends at FWD point out in this handy guide, there are a few tricks that will make your clever GIF pop. [FWD]
Computer Program Uses Avatar Role Play To Help Children Combat Social Anxiety
Computer programs have long been used to help teach children important life skills: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing a shining early example of a virtual world in which kids could learn.
This Flirtatious NYC Airport Avatar Was Definitely Designed By A Dude
This interactive avatar is projected onto a plexiglass silhouette of a woman’s body. Lost and disoriented travellers can ask her for help with things like getting to the correct gate, security checkpoint rules, and duty-free shopping.
5% Of Twitter Employees Still Use That Silly Egg Avatar
According to AllTwitter, 5 per cent of Twitter’s 500 employees haven’t picked an avatar yet. C’mon, guys! Why so shy? Embrace the one bit of visual originality your company’s service allows you!
This Is Why Xbox Live Avatars Are Cartoon-y, Not Creepy
Xbox’s Avatar Kinect is pretty wild: It tracks and replicates your facial expressions with surprising precision. Which probably made you think about having a more realistic Avatar reppin’ yourself owning up 12-year-olds in Halo, or something. But Microsoft Research’s Photo-Real Talking Head project, which uses 2D photos to make a photo-realistic 3D model of a face with the same kind of emotional range, shows why that’s a terrible idea.
