Ready Play Me, the free avatar maker from Wolf3D, now supports exporting avatars to VRChat, making it quick and easy to get a customizable avatar into one of the most popular social VR applications.

VRChat announced it’s officially opened its own Avatar Marketplace, allowing users a centralized way to buy and sell avatars from within the social VR platform. Users have been able to visit VRChat ...

The fighting machines from James Cameron’s "Avatar" are stepping out from the reel and into real life. Soldiers in the 2009 science fiction movie engaged in combat while sitting inside gigantic ...

Using a robotic avatar to go places a human body can't is the stuff of sci-fi dreams. That's why Japanese airline ANA is sponsoring the Avatar XPrize. "So the goal of the Avatar Xprize is a contest ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Robot avatars have been a sci-fi staple for decades, letting fictional humans remotely carry out ...

The future of intergalactic/interspecies brain-control from the movie ‘Avatar.’ Um, we’re not quite there yet. [Credit: Twentieth Century Fox] We’ve seen our ...

Developing true robot surrogates that allow you to be in two places at once means duplicating all of our movements and senses in machine form. Given you can now make a video call on your phone, it's ...