Emojis are popular for expressing feelings in chats. If you want to present yourself more strongly, you can use an avatar – the personalized emoji. It is now also available on WhatsApp.
In the WhatsApp messenger app, avatars can now also be used as stickers in chats. Users can also use their avatar as a WhatsApp profile photo if they don’t want to show a real picture of themselves there or want to remain anonymous, as reported by the parent company Meta.
Lots of customization options
WhatsApp had already tested the avatars in beta, TECHBOOK reported. Various basic avatar types can now be customized with many characteristics from hairstyles to outfits. It is then possible to create a set of 36 personalized stickers that show your own avatar with different emotions or actions.
Meta wants to keep working on the styles, light, shadows and textures of the graphics. Apply to the avatars the same privacy settings as for other images on whatsapp.
Avatars not only in WhatsApp
Users also encounter virtual representatives elsewhere: Apple introduced them a long time ago as Memojis for the news app and Facetime.
The same applies to the AR emojis from Samsung: On many of the South Koreans’ smartphones, the camera can capture the main features of one’s own face such as eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks and forehead and use this information to create a 3D avatar.