High Fidelity Adds "Ready Room" for Customizable Avatars

"Ready Room", as the name suggests, is a place for customizing your VR avatar, and the developers' first customer is High Fidelity:

You can use this Ready Room to create an infinite number of custom persistent avatars that can be used across applications and VR platforms. The first customer to use the Ready Room — an avatar engine and character management system — is VR playspace maker High Fidelity, which founded by Second Life creator Philip Rosedale. High Fidelity is the first of many virtual world companies that could use the Ready Room to morph avatars and “ready” them for different shared virtual spaces.

It's created by Morph3D, which has a pretty impressive avatar customization system:

VISEMES AND PHONEMES

Pro-tip: Make your main character an aspiring ventriloquist and all your dialogue animations will be super easy to create. Or better yet, use MCS's built in facial morphs to get realistic speach animations. With the 16 different phoneme morphs, you can accurately mimic human speach in your game or application.

DYNAMIC SKELETON SYSTEM

Animating your character can be a real pain in the fully-articulated neck. Add to that MCS’s morphing capabilities and now you have scaling bones, drifting joints, and completely different character sizes… Animate that? This may have you launching into a “bang head on keyboard” cycle. Not to spoil your nervous fit, but these animation problems have already been solved. Enter Morph 3D’s Morph Character System and the Magic of MECANIM.

More here. I can easily see a lot of the SL community jumping into High Fidelity just for the fun of customizing and photographing their avatar -- and the phoneme feature opens up cool possibilities for machinima.

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Comments

[Carlos Loff]

The video has too much unshaved guys and to few of ready room, but I think it looks nice and pro, congrats on this one to High Fidelity

[Imagin Illyar]

Is High Fidelity first person view? Meaning inworld you don't see your own avatar?

[Wagner J Au]

No one shaves in the Valley, Carlos, because that just suggests the dude is not busy Disrupting enough. Same reason there's a big startup trying to eliminate the need to eat actual food (Soylent).

[JohnC]

I am told that it's un cool to press clothing as well. It's the shaggy look, scooby dooby doooooo

[frapingtastic]

Nothing personal, but all white guys and hot chicks is boring beyond infinity. For MLK's sake, stretch a little!

[yepfellers]

Maybe there really are enough young white men to keep HiFi and Morph 3D and the like in business. Someone else will swoop up the other demographics I guess.

Wake the F up bros. If "we", the other 90%, can't identify with your demos...we ain't giving you our moneys.

The world is half women - not all of whom have super perky boobs and blank stares. And then there are other races of male peoples too.

Your white elitist crap propaganda is devastatingly heavy with it's own ignorance, Silicon Valley and LA! Like it's gonna crush you with stupidity of the discrimination going on right now.

You can only make what you know. What you young white dudes know is limited to your experiences, ok?

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[JohnC]

"The world is half women - not all of whom have super perky boobs and blank stares" that is oh so true.
But unless you believe that all SL female avatars are secretly guys in RL, then easily the majority when given a choice seem to choose the "super perky boobs and blank stare" look it seems. I think guys can sometimes get blamed for forcing women into looks that they actually like. Although women would never admit it for fear of being ridiculed by other women. I used to always make my male Avatar look battered and older looking right from the outset in SL. But I was continuously asked why, when I had a chance to look like good I chose to look beaten up like in RL.