Wombo, the makers of viral AI-generated artwork app Dream by Wombo, is again with one other new AI-powered app known as Wombo Me. The brand new AI avatar app from the Canadian startup enables you to flip a single selfie into a number of lifelike avatars.
Though there are a number of standard AI avatar apps already available on the market, like Lensa AI, Wombo desires to provide customers a extra streamlined expertise when producing lifelike avatars. Not like 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 advised TechCrunch in an interview.
Wombo Me is supposed to be extra enjoyable, versus useful. The app’s description notes which you could share the avatars with your folks and throughout social media, and perhaps even use them on platforms like LinkedIn and Tinder to seize each your professionalism and character.
The app enables you to do issues like attempt on the persona of celebrities, film characters or superheroes with a easy faucet. You can too attempt new hair colours, kinds or make-up developments, amongst different issues. Plus, you may create gender-swapped photographs of your self or reimagine your self as an enchanted character.
“As quickly as you put in it, the very first thing you see is a selfie display screen, so it asks you to simply present a single picture after which as quickly as you press proceed, you see 10 photographs of you in distinctive alternate realities,” Wombo’s head of AI Parshant Loungani advised TechCrunch. “And you’ll swipe proper or swipe left in a Tinder-like expertise to love it and put it aside. We plan on utilizing that suggestions to enhance the consumer’s identification and the images that we generate to mainly perceive their desire and replace it the subsequent time.”
When you’re executed swiping by means of the set of photographs offered, you’ve 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 gives high-quality photographs which are similar to, and even higher than, what’s accessible available on the market proper now. Plus, he believes that because the output is produced from only a single picture virtually instantaneously, Wombo Me gives 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 bold 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. As an example, if a whole group of buddies is on the app and it has realized what every particular person appears to be like like, it has the potential to generate imagery of them collectively.
“There’s a social side of it,” Benkhin stated. “The AI has realized what every of us seem like and might generate imagery of us. Now you can begin mechanically producing content material for social the place a number of individuals are doing one thing fascinating. So we see the accessibility and single selfie benefit as a primary step. The long-term of the product is the place all the opposite differentiation goes to occur.”
Loungani famous that sooner or later, customers of the app may very well be requested to supply a 10- to 20-second voice clip together with video of them shifting their head in a sure method, to be able to then create a multimodal identification of theirs. The identification may then be used to generate content material like dancing movies or interactions with buddies.
Benkhin believes that though AI already performs an enormous function in shopper apps like Instagram and TikTok by way of curating feeds, the expertise will more and more be used for media creation sooner or later.
“We expect the subsequent stage of that is AI for media creation, and never simply curation,” Benkhin stated. “And more and more, customers are going to be creating AI-generated media that they’re posting for socials. And likewise the platforms themselves are going to be creating personalised content material for customers utilizing AI. And we expect that’s the subsequent period on social media. We expect it’s an enormous alternative, and with each product and have we make, we’re taking a step in that course.”
Wombo Me is on the market worldwide on each iOS and Android beginning in the present day.
The brand new app has some massive sneakers to fill, as its predecessor Dream by Wombo was a viral success and named Google’s “Greatest App” in the USA final yr. The app has been downloaded greater than 47 million occasions and seen $4.3 million in gross income, in keeping with knowledge offered to TechCrunch by mobile intelligence firm, data.ai. The app is at present ranked No. 30 for downloads in Graphics & Design on the U.S. App Retailer.