The company’s early work was with avatar systems for enterprise customers but “ov er the years, Ready Player Me aggregated a proprietary database of 20,000+ face scans captured with the company’s own hardware-based 3D scanners” and “these scans enabled Ready Player Me to build a deep-learning solution that can accurately predict and render realistic faces from a single 2D photo,” according to Ready Player Me. You can check that out in the video below. We checked in with the company’s platform early last year as we took its selfie-based creator system for a test drive. Along with partnerships with fashion brands like Adidas and New Balance, the company says its avatar system is supported across more than 3,000 apps including VRChat and Spatial. Ready Player Me employs around 5o people and expects to double in size this year as its cross-platform avatar system evolves, according to the company. “We’re working on the tooling for that now, expect to hear more in the coming months.” Ready Player Me will “build avatar content creation tools to enable developers, brands and individual artists to create and sell avatar customization assets that work across thousands of virtual worlds,” wrote Ready Player Me Co-Founder and CEO Timmu Tõke in an emailed answer to UploadVR.

The company announced this week it gained the support of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) - the same early investor that helped jumpstart Oculus - with its latest $56 million Series B funding round which includes participation from Roblox co-founder David Baszucki and Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, among others.

With its latest round of fundraising cross-platform avatar company Ready Player Me will build new tools for “helping developers generate revenue with avatars”.

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