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Zoom’s avatars now let you appear as a cartoon version of yourself
Zoom announced human avatars today for its video meeting app. Like Apple’s Memoji or the humanoid cartoons Mark Zuckerberg wants us to use in the metaverse, the customizable virtual characters mirror your movements and facial expressions. The idea is to inject zaniness into less formal meetings, letting you be present without appearing on camera as your (flesh and blood) self.
The human avatars follow Zoom’s release of animal avatars earlier this year. The company suggests using avatars when you are eating, don’t want to use a static profile pic or feel like livening up the mundane. The feature is available to beta testers, which requires a paid account. Zoom adds that it will roll out new facial features, hairstyles and customization options as the beta progresses.
Zoom also announced templates as shortcuts for various meeting types. You can now create your own templates or choose from three out-of-the-box setups. These include large meetings (automated captions and automatically recorded content), seminars (tighter crowd-control settings with screen-sharing disabled) and K-12 (enabled polls and quizzes while limiting distracting features). You can learn how to create templates by following these instructions.
The company is also soon adding threaded messages and reactions for in-meeting chats. Similar to what you’d see in Slack, Facebook Messenger or iMessage, message threads make it easier to figure out which message someone is replying to. Similarly, emoji reactions help clean up the chat and pair the response with the original message. Zoom says threads and emoji reactions will arrive later this month.
Finally, Zoom is adding Q&A in meetings. The idea is for meeting hosts to stay organized, confining group questions to one area of the app. The Q&A pop-out lets meeting hosts view, answer or dismiss queries. They can also choose whether participants can view all questions or only answered ones. However, hosts will need a premium plan to use the feature.
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Trump’s Badly Photoshopped NFTs Appear to Use Photos From Small Clothing Brands
Over the last 24 hours, fans of ex-President Donald Trump have sat huddled in their chairs, waiting with bated breath for a supposed announcement the once tweeter-in-chief promised would blow their socks off. He posted a video to his Truth Social page showing an image of him in a kind of superhero garb, sporting pecs…
EastEnders actress June Brown’s children set to appear on a special funeral episode
Private investors appear key to COP27’s ‘loss and damage’ fund for vulnerable countries
COPs are traditionally about setting targets, and COP27 finally gives countries a tool to achieve them.
Private investors appear key to COP27’s ‘loss and damage’ fund for vulnerable countries by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Appear on ‘Drag Race’ Spinoff – CNET
Keanu Reeves To Appear As John Wick In Ballerina Spin-off Film
If you were thinking he’d be back, you’re right: Keanu Reeves will reprise his role as John Wick not just in John Wick: Chapter 4, but also in the upcoming spin-off, Ballerina, Collider reports.
Details on Reeves’ role in the film and the film’s plot are both very light. The film will star Ana de Armas (Blonde, Blade Runner 2049) as the titular character, a female assassin with similar origins to those of John Wick, and who is also out for revenge. We saw a character like this briefly in John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, but we don’t know for sure yet if it will be the same character. We know that Reeves will appear as Wick, but whether his appearance will be a cameo or something bigger is not yet known.
Ian McShane will also reprise his role as Winston, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Winston is the manager of the Continental, the assassins-only hotel that helped John Wick take up residence in fan imaginations.
Eerie Pillars of Light Appear Over South Korean Island – Coast to Coast
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