Wombo, the makers of viral AI-generated artwork app Dream by Wombo, is again with one other new AI-powered app referred to as Wombo Me. The brand new AI avatar app from the Canadian startup helps you to flip a single selfie into a number of lifelike avatars.
Though there are a number of well-liked AI avatar apps already available on the market, like Lensa AI, Wombo needs to provide customers a extra streamlined expertise when producing lifelike avatars. In contrast to 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 might generate photographs virtually immediately, Wombo CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin informed TechCrunch in an interview.
Wombo Me is supposed to be extra enjoyable, versus practical. The app’s description notes that you would be able to share the avatars with your pals and throughout social media, and possibly even use them on platforms like LinkedIn and Tinder to seize each your professionalism and persona.
The app helps 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 traits, 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 soon as you install it, the first thing you see is a selfie screen, so it asks you to just provide a single image and then as soon as you press continue, you see 10 images of you in unique alternate realities,” Wombo’s head of AI Parshant Loungani informed TechCrunch. “And you can swipe right or swipe left in a Tinder-like experience to like it and save it. We plan on using that feedback to improve the user’s identity and the pictures that we generate to basically understand their preference and update it the next time.”
When you’re finished swiping by the set of photographs supplied, you’ve got the selection to flick thru a catalog or 5 to 10 completely different packs of avatars that embrace photographs of your self in LinkedIn-like headshots, Instagrammable photos, 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 can be akin to, and even higher than, what’s obtainable available on the market 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 impressive 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. For example, if a complete group of mates is on the app and it has discovered what every particular person appears like, it has the potential to generate imagery of them collectively.
“There’s a social aspect of it,” Benkhin mentioned. “The AI has learned what each of us look like and can generate imagery of us. Now you can start automatically generating content for social where multiple people are doing something interesting. So we see the accessibility and single selfie advantage as a first step. The long-term of the product is where all the other differentiation is going to happen.”
Loungani famous that sooner or later, customers of the app could possibly be requested to supply a ten to twenty second voice clip together with video of them transferring their head in a sure means, in an effort to then create a multimodal id of theirs. The id may then be used to generate content material like dancing movies or interactions with mates.
Benkhin believes that though AI already performs an enormous function in shopper apps like Instagram and TikTok when it comes to curating feeds, the know-how will more and more be used for media creation sooner or later.
“We think the next stage of this is AI for media creation, and not just curation,” Benkhin mentioned. “And increasingly, users are going to be creating AI generated media that they’re posting for socials. And also the platforms themselves are going to be creating personalized content for users using AI. And we think that’s the next era on social media. We think it’s a huge opportunity, and with every product and feature we make, we’re taking a step in that direction.”
Wombo Me is accessible worldwide on each iOS and Android beginning right this moment.
The brand new app has some massive sneakers to fill, as its predecessor Dream by Wombo was a viral success and named Google’s “Best App” in the US final 12 months. The app has been downloaded greater than 47 million instances and seen $4.3 million in gross income, in accordance with information supplied to TechCrunch by mobile intelligence firm, data.ai. The app is presently ranked #30 for downloads in Graphics & Design on the U.S. App Retailer.
