Porto, Portugal, 30 September 2021 - Didimo, Inc, the leading provider of automated solutions for the generation of high-fidelity digital humans announces early access to a suite of new capabilities, tools, and support for creating digital humans. This release includes a completely new generation pipeline capable of creating life-like digital humans at scale, high quality, and run time so that any business can now offer the opportunity to their customers to personalize and become involved in branded experiences. As businesses of all types, from retail to communications to entertainment, continue to drive more meaningful relationships with customers through personalization, digital humans are fast becoming an important tool to drive meaningful results.
The new platform supports robust new features, capabilities, and support for businesses, including:
New Animation, Geometry & Surfacing Capabilities
New joint-based animation & retargeting system, including joints for head and neck rotation
ARKit compatible
Oculus Lipsync compatible
AWS Polly compatible
Improved geometric shapes for better animatability
Increased anatomical correctness in eyes, mouth
Reduced number of meshes from 12 to 5
New maximum texture dimension options (512px, 1024px, 2048px)
New Unity URP Shaders
New hair library launching now and being updated through the Fall
New File Management Options
New default glTF file format supported in Unity and Unreal; continued support for FBX
New LOD_4 optimized for consumer hardware(9112 poly mesh, 4900k vertices at runtime, 6 draw calls)
Pin your application to a specific Didimo Pipeline version
New webhook to get notified when didimos are ready for download
New Support Tools
New Unity SDK
Upgraded Customer Portal
New API
New Oculus Showcase
According to Didimo CEO Verónica Orvalho, “Didimo digital humans - user-generated, high-quality, scalable, and ready at runtime - are a game-changer for businesses to better engage their customers with more personalized, authentic, and engaging experiences. From a simple selfie, your customers can now fully see themselves inside your applications. This new platform provides the most advanced abilities for user-generated avatars at scale and efficient pricing so that every business can leverage this technology. Innovative companies are gaining a first-mover advantage today by bringing this to their customers. Now is the time to be unlocking this potential in your business.”
Humans have always pushed the boundaries of communication and engagement. This continual evolution has brought us to the age of 3D computing experiences which will blur the boundaries between physical and digital worlds and unlock new opportunities for companies in education/training, entertainment, retail, design, customer support, and more areas. “With the proliferation of real-time game engines and the 3D web powering new content experiences, technology has finally caught up with how human beings best see and interact with the real world. Now people can involve themselves directly, transforming how they communicate, work, learn and play. We are empowering people to be able to do more and to make the world more human”, says Jim Franzen, Director of Sales & Marketing at Didimo.
Early Access allows Didimo clients and developers to begin testing new features and building applications to leverage this increased quality and power in advance of the full release next month to make Didimo digital humans, didimos, an easy, seamless part of their customer’s experiences. Access to the new tools and support is available through the company’s website www.didimo.co and new developer portal developer.didimo.co
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About Didimo Inc.
Didimo Inc is the leading creator of high-fidelity digital humans. With a patented, cloud-based technology platform, Didimo can generate high-fidelity, fully animatable, and customizable digital humans for use in any digital touchpoint or experience. Generation can happen from a photo, video, or scan and is completed in around 90 seconds, opening this breakthrough pipeline to provide an individual’s digital human--a didimo--at scale and at run time, to solve real-world challenges for all types of companies. Didimo’s mission is to bring the richness of human engagement to every digital interaction. Didimo has offices in Porto, London, and Vancouver.
More info www.didimo.co
