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Netflix Acquires XR Avatar Startup Ready Player Me

Netflix announced it’s acquiring Ready Player Me, the avatar creation platform, which the streaming giant hopes to leverage ...
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transcosmos and V, Inc. launch metaverse creator services for VRChat via Geek Jack, transcosmos’s cross-border e-commerce site for entertainment items

MODE-SAPO!—creator support services for VRChat—streamlines non-creative tasksTOKYO, Dec. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- transcosmos operates Geek Jack, a ...

Everything Everywhere All at Once: How the ‘Avatar’ Movies Obliterate Traditional Boundaries Between Prep, Production, and Post

Writer-director James Cameron and his department heads talk with IndieWire about obliterating boundaries between ...
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Someone Asked James Cameron How Much Avatar 3 Cost To Make, And He Dropped An F-Bomb

Sci-Fi Movies Disney boss Bob Iger called Avatar 3 "magnificent" and even shot down executive notes, according to James Cameron Movies James Cameron Admits Avatar 1 And 2 Had Problems, But Fire And ...
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Netflix’s Ready Player Me Deal Signals Push Toward Persistent Game Identities

Netflix has acquired Ready Player Me, an Estonia-based avatar technology company, to build unified identities across Netflix Games. Netflix said subscribers wil ...

How Atlas Obscura plans to embrace the 3D web

After building dedicated apps for Meta’s Quest and other VR headsets, Atlas Obscura expands to HTC’s Viverse platform. This ...
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Google is Rolling out Photorealistic ‘Likeness’ Avatars on Android XR to Compete with Apple’s ‘Personas’

Google is starting to roll out new photorealistic avatars which they call “Likeness”. Similar to Apple’s Personas, Likeness avatars are generated by scanning a user’s face, then animated it with input ...

Netflix Buys Ready Player Me, an Avatar-Creation Developer, to Let Users Make Their Own Gaming Personas

Netflix will soon let customers make their own customized gaming avatars through the acquisition of Ready Player Me, an avatar-creation platform.
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I Asked James Cameron How Ready He Is To Shoot Avatar 4 & 5, And He Hinted At Other Ideas In The Works: ‘I Can't Plan The Next 25 Years’

Movies Blockbusters Are Making Less Money These Days, But I'm Still Shook About What James Cameron Is Saying Ahead Of Avatar 3, 4, and 5 Sci-Fi Movies Avatar 4 release date, cast, plot, and everything ...
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'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Star Sam Worthington Has a Confession To Make About Working With James Cameron

Mike Ryan lives in New York City with his longtime partner, two cats, and his turtle that, when he bought him in 1998, didn’t really think through the lifespan of turtles. It’s probably fair to say ...
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James Cameron Got Studio Pushback for Wanting To Make Avatar 3

James Cameron says the road to making Avatar 3 wasn’t as smooth as fans might assume. The filmmaker revealed that the studio pushed back when he chose to split the original follow-up into two films, ...
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Sigourney Weaver says working with James Cameron on the Avatar series is "like the perfect job for an actor": "He does everything possible to make sure you get to try ...

Sci-Fi Movies Avatar: Fire and Ash ending explained: who dies, what happens to Varang and Quaritch, and if it sets another Avatar film Sci-Fi Movies Avatar 4 is getting a new narrator, and the actor ...