Wombo, the makers of viral AI-generated artwork app Dream by Wombo, is again with one other new AI-powered app known as Wombo Me. The brand new AI avatar app from the Canadian startup enables you to flip a single selfie into a number of lifelike avatars.
Though there are a number of standard AI avatar apps already in the marketplace, like Lensa AI, Wombo needs to offer customers a extra streamlined expertise when producing lifelike avatars. Not like different related apps that require you to submit quite a few selfies and wait a while earlier than getting your photographs, Wombo Me solely requires one selfie and may generate photographs virtually immediately, Wombo CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin informed TechCrunch in an interview.
Wombo Me is supposed to be extra enjoyable, versus purposeful. The app’s description notes that you would be able to share the avatars with your mates and throughout social media, and perhaps even use them on platforms like LinkedIn and Tinder to seize each your professionalism and persona.
The app enables you to do issues like attempt on the persona of celebrities, film characters, or superheroes with a easy faucet. You may also attempt new hair colours, types, or make-up developments, amongst different issues. Plus, you’ll be able to create gender-swapped photographs of your self or reimagine your self as an enchanted character.
“As quickly as you put in it, the very first thing you see is a selfie display screen, so it asks you to simply present a single picture after which as quickly as you press proceed, you see 10 photographs of you in distinctive alternate realities,” Wombo’s head of AI Parshant Loungani informed TechCrunch. “And you may swipe proper or swipe left in a Tinder-like expertise to love it and put it aside. We plan on utilizing that suggestions to enhance the consumer’s id and the photographs that we generate to mainly perceive their desire and replace it the following time.”
When you’re completed swiping via the set of photographs supplied, you could have the selection to flick thru a catalog or 5 to 10 totally different packs of avatars that embody photographs of your self in LinkedIn-like headshots, Instagrammable footage, enchanted characters, cartoon characters, meme characters and extra. Some avatar packs are free, whereas others price $2.99, $3.99, $4.99 or $7.99.
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Benkhin says Wombo Me supplies top quality photographs which are similar to, and even higher than, what’s obtainable in the marketplace proper now. Plus, he believes that because the output is produced from only a single picture virtually instantaneously, Wombo Me supplies each ease of use and accessibility for customers.
He additionally thinks that whereas different related apps have a brief shelf life, the corporate sees a extra long-term and bold plan for Wombo Me, the place the flexibility to generate content material of a consumer from a single selfie will get tied right into a deeper platform expertise. As an example, if a whole group of mates is on the app and it has discovered what every particular person appears to be like like, it has the potential to generate imagery of them collectively.
“There’s a social facet of it,” Benkhin mentioned. “The AI has discovered what every of us appear to be and may generate imagery of us. Now you can begin mechanically producing content material for social the place a number of individuals are doing one thing attention-grabbing. So we see the accessibility and single selfie benefit as a primary step. The long-term of the product is the place all the opposite differentiation goes to occur.”
Loungani famous that sooner or later, customers of the app might be requested to supply a ten to twenty second voice clip together with video of them transferring their head in a sure method, in an effort to then create a multimodal id of theirs. The id might then be used to generate content material like dancing movies or interactions with mates.
Benkhin believes that though AI already performs an enormous position in shopper apps like Instagram and TikTok by way of curating feeds, the know-how will more and more be used for media creation sooner or later.
“We predict the following stage of that is AI for media creation, and never simply curation,” Benkhin mentioned. “And more and more, customers are going to be creating AI generated media that they’re posting for socials. And in addition the platforms themselves are going to be creating customized content material for customers utilizing AI. And we expect that’s the following period on social media. We predict it’s an enormous alternative, and with each product and have we make, we’re taking a step in that course.”
Wombo Me is on the market worldwide on each iOS and Android beginning as we speak.
The brand new app has some huge footwear to fill, as its predecessor Dream by Wombo was a viral success and named Google’s “Greatest App” in america final 12 months. The app has been downloaded greater than 47 million instances and seen $4.3 million in gross income, in response to information supplied to TechCrunch by cellular intelligence agency, information.ai.
