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Milena_Paumen
Microsoft
MicrosoftIntroducing Avatars: Seeking Valuable Feedback from the Tech Community!
Greetings, tech enthusiasts!
We are thrilled to announce the latest development in our virtual world: Avatars! Our team has been hard at work to bring this exciting feature to life, and we're eager to share it with all of you. Avatars have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact and engage within virtual environments, and we believe your input can make a significant impact on their further development.
Before we dive into the details, I invite you to visit the following link to explore and experience our brand new Avatars: Microsoft Mesh: Transforming how people come together in the modern workplace - Microsoft Community Hub and YouTube video link: https://youtu.be/fSKBHOWOcSM
Avatars are designed to enhance your virtual presence and provide a more immersive and personalized experience. They allow you to create a digital representation of yourself, complete with customizable features, clothing, accessories, and even unique animations. By using Avatars, we aim to bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds, enabling you to express yourself more authentically and connect with others on a deeper level.
Now, we need your expertise and insights to refine and improve this exciting feature. As members of the tech community, your feedback is invaluable in shaping the future of Avatars. Here are a few key questions we'd love to hear your thoughts on:
- User Interface and Customization: How intuitive is the process of creating and customizing Avatars? Are there any improvements or additional options you'd like to suggest?
- Realism vs. Creativity: What balance should we strike between realistic representations and allowing users to explore imaginative and unique Avatar designs? Should there be limitations, and if so, what kind.
- Social Interaction and Integration: How can we enhance social interactions through Avatars? Are there any integration possibilities with existing communication platforms or social media networks that you would like to explore?
Please feel free to share any other thoughts, ideas, or concerns you may have regarding Avatars. Your feedback will help us shape the next phase of development and make Avatars an incredible addition to our virtual world.
We appreciate your time and dedication to the tech community, and we're excited to hear your opinions. Together, let's create a virtual environment that truly reflects and celebrates each individual's uniqueness.
Milena_Paumen
Make more women options and better fun and styley clothing for women.
Women want earrings, scarfs, different coloured glasses, and clothes that are fun and interesting. There needs to be more colour options for all makeup (ie: blusher could be different colour as well). In the hat range there could be tiaras and headbands and extensions of different colours so its highlighted hair etc. Make it more fun developers please! thanks for what we have for now.Milena_Paumen The diversity shown with head covering options is great, but could you please add a yarmulke / kippah for your Jewish users?
Thank youThere are a bunch of Muslim ones. Annoying that no Jewish ones. Have black Ashkenazi and white Mizrahi options at least.
Milena_Paumen , is there a way to use Avatars programmatically?
- The system needs vastly more options and a more granular ability to tweak the avatar looks - from skin colours to facial features and shapes. It's nearly impossible to make an avatar that genuinely looks like yourself that people would actually recognise as you.
More wardrobe options. And not just North American fashion or very specific international or cultural options. Hats, and flat caps. More eye glasses options. Milena_Paumen couple of small requests 🙂
1) Please add a 'golf swing' reaction, Johnny Carson style. That would be amazing
2) I wish I could pin more reactions, or put them in a more convenient location/arrangement
3) It would be nice to have an easy button to queue up my avatar, like how I can toggle my camera on/offThanks
Milena_Paumen Any chance we can get Halloween costume options for our avatars in October?
- Idea - It would be nice to have the ability to create company clothes (for example, the official 2023 Xmas winter hoodie).
- Idea - It would be nice to have the ability to generate profile pictures based on our avatars. (something similar to WhatsApp).
Milena_Paumen I would like to be able to add freckles, eyelashes and glasses.
The ability to use my webcam to grab a photo and have Avatar build a template likeness would be helpful.
Additional wardrobe options could be fun, ex: Christmas sweater, Halloween Costume, Team Jersey...
Milena_Paumen Great Initiative and impressive customization features, although I am not seeing an option for a Yarmulke/Kippah in the Headgear section. Would be great if that was also added. Thank you.
