Meta adds legs to its virtual avatars
The Facebook-owned company finally added legs to these iconic characters
Meta’s avatars already show legs, the element that was missing in the virtual versions of users and that the technology company promised to incorporate so that they would be visible to others.
Meta’s avatars on the Horizon virtual platforms display representations of the users up to their waists, giving the effect that they are floating rather than standing on two legs above the ground.
This is due, as the company explained on several occasions, to the lack of naturalness between the movement of the real legs and the virtual ones, something that, it understands, can be disconcerting for the users themselves.
However, in September of last year they confirmed that they would incorporate the legs into the avatars, although these would only be visible to other users and not to the person represented in the avatar. And the time to see the rest of the whole body has arrived with a beta.
The first-person view from an avatar still shows a virtual body that ends at the waist, but when stopping in the digital world before a mirror or seeing other avatars, the experience changes because then you can see the legs and their movement, as collected by media such as TechCrunch and UploadVR.
The legs can be found in Horizon Home, as in the v57 update available on Quest’s Public Test Channel.
Source: dpa
(Reference image source: Meta, Europapress)
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