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fromCNET
6 days ago

DirecTV Customers Will Soon See Their Own Faces in AI-Generated TV Ads

DirecTV has partnered with Glance, an artificial intelligence company, to allow people using its Gemini devices to see AI-generated screensavers featuring their own faces. Glance, owned by a mobile ad company, said it will add this new AI feature to DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026. If you own a Gemini device -- either the Gemini, which works via , or the Gemini Air dongle if you're a customer -- the TV screensaver will allow you to create an AI avatar of yourself.
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fromSemafor
1 week ago

DirecTV adds AI avatars to TV breaks for personalized shopping

DirecTV and Glance create AI-generated, shoppable avatar scenes featuring users and their families, raising privacy concerns while enabling new advertising possibilities.
Television
fromArs Technica
1 week ago

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

DirecTV will deploy Glance AI-powered screensavers offering personalized avatars, tailored product recommendations, AI-generated videos, advertising-driven commerce, and real-time weather and sports updates.
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fromZDNET
3 weeks ago
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Microsoft lets you pick a character for your AI - with its new Copilot Portraits feature

fromZDNET
3 weeks ago
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Microsoft lets you pick a character for your AI - with its new Copilot Portraits feature

fromThe Verge
1 month ago

You can soon attend Zoom meetings as your AI avatar

Zoom's vision of filling meetings with AI clones has nearly arrived. On Wednesday, the video conferencing app announced that you'll soon be able to create a "photorealistic" avatar of yourself in case you aren't "camera-ready." That means your AI avatar can appear polished if you've just crawled out of bed. Zoom plans on launching this feature to Workplace users in December, allowing you to generate an AI lookalike based on a photo of yourself that you upload or capture directly in the app.
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Marketing tech
fromEntrepreneur
1 month ago

What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About 'Digital Immortality' | Entrepreneur

AI and VR create digital legacies—avatars, voice clones and holograms—that will influence buying decisions and extend customer lifetime value beyond death.
Online learning
fromeLearning Industry
1 month ago

How AI Avatars And AI Chat Tutors Are Personalizing Education

AI avatars and chat tutors provide personalized, adaptive, and accessible learning support that supplements teachers and tailors instruction to individual student needs.
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fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version | TechCrunch

Google's Vids adds AI avatars, auto-transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, plus a limited free consumer version.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

AI "deadbots" are persuasive and researchers say, they're primed for monetization

They're giving interviews advocating for tougher gun laws, such as when the family of Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the 2018 Parkland school shooting in Florida, created a beanie-wearing AI avatar of him and had it speak with journalist Jim Acosta in July. "This is just another advocacy tool to create that urgency of making things change," Manuel Oliver, Joaquin's father, told NPR.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

Chinese 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard-like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there's no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office printers. She has a phone in one hand and often checks it as if to read a sales script or monitor the viewer comments coming in.
E-Commerce
Digital life
fromFuturism
2 months ago

You'll Never Guess How Much You Can Get Paid for Rights to Use Your Face to Make AI-Generated Ads on TikTok

AI-generated ads on TikTok feature actors transformed into digital avatars promoting questionable products.
Actors surrender their likeness for minimal compensation with no royalties.
Digital life
fromMail Online
2 months ago

Star Trek legend discovers powerful new way to live forever

StoryFile allows individuals to create lifelike avatars that preserve their memories and wisdom for future generations.
fromFortune
3 months ago

Would you replace your CEO with an AI avatar?

We’re essentially a technology digital team for any business... with particular agents that have particular functions. We just need general ideas on what to do.
E-Commerce
Digital life
fromFuturism
3 months ago

"We Need to Somehow Remove the Human": A Fast-Rising Gaming YouTuber Is an AI Construct

AI avatars like Bloo are revolutionizing content creation in the gaming industry.
fromThe Verge
3 months ago

Zoom's new Meta Quest app encourages taking video calls in VR

Zoom has launched a standalone app for Meta Quest headsets, allowing users to join or host meetings in virtual reality as their Meta Avatar, with support for all Zoom licenses.
Gadgets
Digital life
fromFortune
3 months ago

What makes an AI avatar seem human, according to Synthesia's CEO

AI avatars can evoke self-reflection, mirroring real human expressions while still lacking perfect accuracy.
fromFortune
3 months ago

AI video avatars are already serving some of the world's biggest companies

The process made me feel vulnerable, like I was giving the computer a piece of me.
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fromGeeky Gadgets
5 months ago

10 AI Avatar Use Cases Transforming Marketing, Education and More

Advancements in AI avatars enable video production without traditional resources.
AI avatars provide brand-adaptable, lifelike presentations for global communication.
Key features include multilingual capabilities and dynamic content creation.
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