Float around in virtual reality long enough and you’ll feel disembodied. Your eyes are covered entirely by a headset. Virtual boundaries create activity parameters within your living room, but you’re still feeling your way through the dark, and the threat of knee-capping yourself on a coffee table is real. Hand controllers, and the preternatural hands you possess in the metaverse, can only do so much. Also, the virtual version of you has no legs.
At least one VR company is hoping to change that. Spatial, a New York-based VR platform for artists, is now offering a full-body avatar option in its app. It’s also going to let users bring in avatars created in Wolf3D’s Ready Player Me platform, which uses selfies to generate realistic-looking, full-body cartoon avatars for games. Ready Player Me currently offers around 300 customization options, and Spatial says it will support all…
