How Hamlet looks in Huanshi's MyIdol
MyIdol (listed by its Chinese name in Apple's App Store: 小偶 - 我的3D萌偶), a free app from a developer called Huanshi, has gone incredibly viral. (As Iris reported last week, in a post that's been read by thousands of new readers, presumably people trying to Google information about MyIdol.) The app's designed to convert real world photos onto a 3D cartoon avatar, but as you can see above, MyIdol can also convert a straight-on image of your Second Life avatar. (Probably works with other MMO/RPGs, I suspect.) I think the conversion actually work even better than using RL photos (for obvious reasons). Give it a try, NWNers, and the post results in Comments!
So far, the app itself is pretty simple, with some cute/stupid animations and a large wardrobe of costumes you can play with. However, I actually suspect Huanshi has something even more ambitious in mind:
If you spend some time playing with the MyIdol interface (kind of a pain, unless you read Chinese), you'll notice it enables sharing a MyIdol on various Asian social networks. This is a potentially huge feature for a number of reasons -- but more on that in another post.
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