Big Stage goes public with 3D interactive avatars
Big Stage, a startup that gives people the ability to create avatars based on pictures of their own face, has released a public beta — and it’s pretty interesting.
When we covered the company before, it was working on the technology, which makes a three dimensional avatar using three different pictures of your face. Once you’ve got the avatar, you can accessorize it with different hair, glasses, hats, expressions, and so forth.
That was back in February…. Continue Reading
Big Stage closing a new round of venture money
Next month, personalized video-mashup site Big Stage will launch its public beta. The site lets you upload three high-resolution photos of yourself. It then stitches those photos into a 3-D avatar. You can accessorize your avatar and put your avatar into videos and amusing scenery. You can then share it with your friends.
The company got to show off its 3-D avatar technology to the world during Intel CEO Paul Otellini’s keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show… Continue Reading
Big Stage’s 3D avatars may blow the competition out of the water
Big Stage wants to popularize 3D avatars based on pictures of your own face, and it looks more likely to do a good job of it than any other startup we’ve seen so far, comparing favorably to JibJab, the most popular site yet to feature animated avatars.
On JibJab, you can paste a picture of your face into a video of, for example, a man who’s disco dancing. It’s silly and fun but has all the… Continue Reading