WhatsApp Rolls Out Support for Meta's Avatars

[cicalinarrot]

They look weird... what are those sort of pipes hanging under their butts?

 

[VulchR]

Just ... no.

 

[NightFox]

An interesting point - yes it's a cartoon version but it's a bit like the bruce willis 'Surrogates' film where people sit in their apartments but control avatars who are perfect, smooth skinned and ageless flesh robot version of themselves in the real world. being encouraged to create a perfectly symmetrical white teethed avatar is not a good thing.

Who is pushing this weird 'use your avatar instead of your own picture' stuff?

Sadly, I think SnapChat/Instagram etc filters let this very toxic and dangerous genie out of the bottle.

 

[genuswelt]

Now they will *** up whatsaap? Nice MarK

 

[Bustycat]

Why can’t they use Vtuber-like avatars? They scare me.

 

[podycust]

Why?


soon you will be charged for different outfits… 😂🤣😜😜🤑

 

[TwoBytes]

I'm definitely going to use this if there is a 'WTF, no iPad WhatsApp yet' Avatar....

 

[T Coma]

Who is pushing this weird 'use your avatar instead of your own picture' stuff?

Hmm… good question.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Honesty, they look less creepy than the Memojis, and that’s saying a lot.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

Is it me or this is just sad and terrifying?

All corporate avatars are.

Still better looking than Memojis lmao

 

[Rychiar]

I’ll never understand why they changed the avatars. They used to be decent looking. Now they’re hideous

 

[philcourage]

When you read about the history of computing you get the sense that those people thought about the future of humankind and progress.

Fast-forward to now and this companies are using all that technlogical progress so they can sell you things you don't need in worlds that don't exist so they can make Wall Street happy because they have the finantial duty of always growing.

We are going wall-e any minute now.

 

[Marsikus]

What an essential functionality.

 

[jollydogfellow]

When you read about the history of computing you get the sense that those people thought about the future of humankind and progress.

Come on, that's borderline silly.
Von Neumann, Turing, the folks at Dartmouth were on a military paycheck.
Their goal was essentially to murder the enemy more efficiently and precisely.

As for the later folks on a corporate R&D paycheck at IBM, etc (Fred Brooks, Codd)... well.
Their essential goal was to... make more money.

I know how you feel and I don't really like any of the **** that came after Usenet and IRC in terms of what it does to people, but I think you're barking up the wrong tree here.

I think the real issue in the West is deindustrialisation and the end of slow-hanging fruits in the industrial sector.
You make money by peddling this **** and eating up large amounts of data nowadays, not by improving a car assembly line with computers.

 

[philcourage]

Come on, that's borderline silly.
Von Neumann, Turing, the folks at Dartmouth were on a military paycheck.
Their goal was essentially to murder the enemy more efficiently and precisely.

As for the later folks on a corporate R&D paycheck at IBM, etc (Fred Brooks, Codd)... well.
Their essential goal was to... make more money.

I know how you feel and I don't really like any of the **** that came after Usenet and IRC in terms of what it does to people, but I think you're barking up the wrong tree here.

I think the real issue in the West is deindustrialisation and the end of slow-hanging fruits in the industrial sector.
You make money by peddling this **** and eating up large amounts of data nowadays, not by improving a car assembly line with computers.

Ok, fair enough.

 

[robbietop]

I guess children need toys to play with while messaging?

I don't see why an adult would need these.

 

[AppleTO]

These things make me cringe.

 

[ikir]

They still push a client side app which destroy iPhones due to local data and crap backup, also crap macOS fake app, no iPad and Watch app... but hey, they have trash Memoji.

 

[Chazak]

Not the least bit surprising they can get this done, but can't get the features they say will be in WhatsApp fully incorporated. Zuckerberg is in his own alternate reality.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

I guess children need toys to play with while messaging?

I don't see why an adult would need these.

The same thing can be said about Memojis, especially those who use them as a profile picture.

 

[WWPD]

Honesty, they look less creepy than the Memojis, and that’s saying a lot.

What about Samsung emoji's? Here is some nightmare fuel.

 

[1557750]

At least someone is supporting Meta.

Of course it’s a company owned by them.

 

[rpmurray]

Pixar would be the ultimate avatar designer with decades making all sorts of cartoony but realistic characters under their belt.

There was a time I would have agreed with you, but ever since they were swallowed whole by the mouse and started churning out schlock sequels it's been very hard for me to watch the train-wreck.

 

[rpmurray]

I think the real issue in the West is deindustrialisation and the end of slow-hanging fruits in the industrial sector.
You make money by peddling this **** and eating up large amounts of data nowadays, not by improving a car assembly line with computers.

Think about how totally useless crypto is compared to the cost to "mine" it. That Ponzi scheme will implode any time now.

 

[randyhudson]

All these "updates" and they can't make an iPad version.

People don't walk around with iPads in their pocket. How would they continuously record your audio with an iPad app?