If Mark Zuckerberg is right, the metaverse will be the 3D successor to today’s 2D social networks. But to get there in style, we’ll need to spruce up our virtual images.

YOOM wants to be your next generation avatar creator.

In the world of online gaming, avatars are a digital representation of a player. They can resemble the real person or be digitally enhanced. Do you want to spit fire like a dragon or sport Viking horns? Sure why not.

In the not too distant past, creating a lifelike avatar that could move naturally through digital space required a dedicated studio equipped with cameras, custom software, and enough computers to handle the processing requirements.

YOOM creates the same illusion with some standard cameras, artificial intelligence and computer vision…