# Avatar

DigiMate offers a diverse selection of metahuman avatars, each created using the latest version of Unreal Engine. This cutting-edge technology ensures that our avatars are highly realistic and capable of providing an engaging user experience for your projects.&#x20;

### Metahuman Selection&#x20;

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Our current list of available avatars includes:

* Freya
* Darell
* Jessica
* Cooper
* Matilda
* Mikasa
* Charlotte

Each avatar is designed to offer a unique set of characteristics, ensuring that you can select the one that best fits the specific needs and context of your project, including demographic or cultural specifics of your target audience for the project.&#x20;

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### Metahuman's Animations

DigiMate’s metahuman avatars are equipped with a sophisticated range of animations designed to enhance realism and user engagement. These animations are crafted with attention to detail, ensuring that each avatar's movements and expressions are natural and lifelike. Below is an overview of the various animation capabilities of our metahumans:

#### 2 Animations Pack

For each metahuman avatar, we provide two sets of animations tailored to their 3D model's body shape. These animation packs include:

* **Female Animations**: Designed specifically for female avatars, these animations account for the distinct 3D body shapes of female characters. This ensures that all movements look organic and appropriate for the avatar.
* **Male Animations**: Similarly, male animations are crafted to suit the 3D body shapes of male avatars, maintaining natural and realistic movements.

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The separation into two distinct animation packs ensures that each animation looks authentic and fits the avatar’s physical characteristics.

#### Facial Animations

Each metahuman avatar comes with a comprehensive set of facial expressions that are dynamically triggered by the AI based on the conversational context.&#x20;

The AI can recognize the tone and content of the conversation, prompting the avatar to display appropriate emotions such as happiness, anger, surprise, or concern. These facial animations are critical for conveying the avatar's responses and enhancing the interactive experience.

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#### Gestures

Our metahumans are also equipped with gesture animations that can be triggered by the AI context or predefined by the user in the project settings.&#x20;

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For example, customers can enable a Greeting Speech that includes a hashtag like '#handWave,' which triggers the avatar's hand-waving animation to greet the user. These gestures add a layer of expressiveness and interaction, making the avatars more engaging and relatable.

#### Idle Animations

Idle animations are designed to ensure that the avatars remain visually interesting even when they are not actively interacting with the user. Each metahuman avatar, depending on their gender, has a set of idle animations:

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* **Static Idle Animation**: This animation involves minimal movement and is active when the user is engaged in conversation with the avatar. It maintains a subtle presence without being distracting.
* **Dynamic Idle Animation**: When there is no interaction between the user and the application, a more dynamic idle animation takes over. This animation includes more pronounced movements, indicating that the metahuman is waiting to engage in conversation.

Each idle animation pack is tailored to fit the specific character, ensuring that both male and female avatars exhibit natural and contextually appropriate idle behavior.

By providing a rich set of animations, DigiMate’s metahuman avatars can deliver a highly immersive and realistic interactive experience. These animations enhance the avatars' ability to communicate and engage with users effectively, making them a powerful tool for various applications.

#### Lip-Sync

Our metahuman avatars feature advanced lip-sync technology to ensure that their mouth movements align perfectly with spoken audio. This feature supports a wide range of languages, including:

`"English (United States, UK, and other dialects)", "Russian (Russia)", "Ukrainian (Ukraine)", "Chinese (Wu, Simplified)", "Spanish (Spain)", "German (Germany)", "French (France)", "Italian (Italy)", "Portuguese (Portugal)", "Polish (Poland)"`

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The lip-sync functionality works by processing JSON and WAV files. When the AI generates a response, it creates a WAV file for the spoken audio and a corresponding JSON file that contains timing and phoneme data. The JSON file instructs the avatar on how to move its lips in sync with the audio, resulting in realistic and accurate lip movements. This technology ensures that the metahuman avatars can deliver natural and engaging spoken interactions, enhancing the overall user experience.

### Outfit Selection

DigiMate’s metahuman avatars come with a variety of outfits designed to suit different business contexts and user preferences. Each outfit is carefully crafted to ensure a high level of detail and realism, enhancing the overall visual appeal of the avatars. Here’s an overview of the available outfits:

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#### Outfit Options

Each character, except for Charlotte, has three distinct outfits to choose from:

* **Smart Casual**: This outfit is designed to convey a relaxed yet professional appearance. It is perfect for environments where a balance between formal and informal attire is required, such as in creative industries or tech startups.
* **Business**: The business outfit provides a formal and polished look, ideal for corporate settings, professional meetings, and any scenario where a more traditional, formal appearance is needed. This outfit emphasizes professionalism and sophistication.
* **Streetstyle**: The streetstyle outfit offers a casual and trendy look, suitable for more informal settings and engagements. It is ideal for projects that target a younger, more casual audience or for environments where a relaxed and approachable appearance is desired.

#### Customization for Business Contexts

The availability of different outfits allows customers to select the best fit for their specific business context. Whether a project requires a more corporate appearance or an open-minded, casual approach, the outfit options ensure that the metahuman avatars can be tailored to match the desired tone and setting.

#### High-Quality Design

All outfits are created with a focus on high-quality design and realism. The textures, materials, and overall look are carefully crafted to ensure that the avatars appear lifelike and engaging, regardless of the chosen outfit. This attention to detail helps to maintain a professional and polished appearance in all interactions.

By offering a range of outfits, DigiMate ensures that your metahuman avatars can be customized to fit the specific needs and preferences of your project, enhancing the overall user experience and visual appeal.



### Background Selection

DigiMate’s metahuman avatars can be placed within a variety of backgrounds, providing a customizable and immersive environment that enhances the overall user experience. There are two main types of backgrounds available for users to select from: pre-configured virtual backgrounds and custom backgrounds.

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#### Pre-Configured Virtual Backgrounds

DigiMate offers a library of pre-configured virtual backgrounds that users can choose from.&#x20;

Each background in our library has been designed with its own unique lighting setup to ensure that the metahuman avatars are presented in the best possible light.&#x20;

By previewing these backgrounds, users can see how the different lighting configurations affect the appearance of the avatars, allowing them to choose the background that best fits their project’s aesthetic and functional needs.

#### Custom Backgrounds

In addition to the pre-configured options, DigiMate allows users to upload their own images to serve as virtual backgrounds.&#x20;

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This feature provides maximum flexibility, enabling customers to personalize the environment to match their specific branding or project requirements.

When a user uploads a custom background, a universal lighting preset is applied to ensure consistency and visual coherence.

&#x20;From an Unreal Engine perspective, the custom backgrounds are displayed on a 3D wall within the virtual environment. This wall acts as a "display" onto which the uploaded image is projected, creating an immersive backdrop for the metahuman avatar.

#### Key Benefits

1. **Enhanced Realism**: Both pre-configured and custom backgrounds are designed to enhance the realism of the virtual environment, making interactions with the metahuman avatars more engaging and believable.
2. **Customization**: The ability to choose from a variety of pre-configured backgrounds or upload custom images allows users to tailor the virtual setting to their specific needs, ensuring that the environment aligns with their project’s goals and branding.
3. **Consistent Lighting**: The unique lighting setups for pre-configured backgrounds and the universal preset for custom backgrounds ensure that the avatars are always well-lit and visually appealing, regardless of the chosen background.

By offering a range of background options, DigiMate provides users with the tools to create a fully customized and immersive environment for their metahuman avatars. This flexibility enhances the overall user experience, making the interactions more visually engaging and contextually appropriate.
