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Cross-platform and Personalized Avatars in the Metaverse: Ready Player Me Case

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Digital Twin Driven Intelligent Systems and Emerging Metaverse

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The future of the Internet is the metaverse, and therefore, we need avatars; in other words, our digital selves that encapsulate our digital identities to represent us visually in this virtual universe. Avatars will be in connection with digital memories and user experiences. Various game and pre-metaverse platforms already use platform-specific avatars. However, there was a need for a cross-platform and personalized avatar environment to pave the way for interoperability, which is essential for the future of metaverse technologies. In this scope, within this chapter, the avatar concept and 3D avatars are explained. Then, the authors describe Ready Player Me (RPM) and how it enables the use of avatars on different platforms. Later on, we predict the future of the metaverse and avatars. Finally, this chapter concludes with an extended discussion on how to build a more open and connected metaverse.

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  1. Ready Player Me, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sercan Altundas

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Türkiye

    Enis Karaarslan

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  1. MSKU Metaverse Lab, Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Mugla, Türkiye

    Enis Karaarslan

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Türkiye

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  3. Department of Electric Power Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Antwerp and Flanders Make Strategic Research Center, Flanders, Belgium

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Altundas, S., Karaarslan, E. (2023). Cross-platform and Personalized Avatars in the Metaverse: Ready Player Me Case. In: Karaarslan, E., Aydin, Ö., Cali, Ü., Challenger, M. (eds) Digital Twin Driven Intelligent Systems and Emerging Metaverse. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0252-1_16

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