New Xbox Live Avatars are coming this fall

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The new Xbox Live Avatars are set to go live this fall, according to the video posted by Tom Warren on YouTube. The video was created by Microsoft and shown this week during its Xbox E3 2017 event.

Back in 2015, job listings posted online by Microsoft stated the company was looking for prospective staffers to help create “higher fidelity” toons. These avatars would be “not only gorgeous, but highly performant across” wide scale of devices.

In other words, the unified gaming environment of Xbox One and Windows 10.

Dubbed Avatar 2.0, the new personas were built with Unity, and the new items such as prosthetics, wheelchairs, vehicles, and props will also interact with the environment.

Last year it was confirmed the new look for Avatars was in the works, along with a wheelchair option – as you can see in the video.

It sounds like we can expect the revamped avatar to arrive around the same time as Xbox One X, which launches November 7.



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Source: https://www.vg247.com/2017/06/14/new-xbox-live-avatars-are-coming-this-fall-and-they-look-so-much-better/

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TOXICPosted:

Pretty awesome they bringing this out, cant wait to see the new avatars, they should bring out more gamer pics as well.

SavitarPosted:

D65
Savitar Yet they wont add gamerpics that you can buy. Pointless.


Why would you ant to "Buy" gamepics when the Xbox One Beta App allows you to use any picture you could ever want?
I don't care. Even then, it should still be an option to not go through the hassle of it as for example, I myself can't do it because I don't have W10.

SkatesPosted:

That avatar at the start looked like a feminist social justice warrior.

RareparrotPosted:

they look stupid wtf.. xD thank god playstation doesnt do that

D65Posted:

Savitar Yet they wont add gamerpics that you can buy. Pointless.


Why would you ant to "Buy" gamepics when the Xbox One Beta App allows you to use any picture you could ever want?

k3rryPosted:

Cool update to avatars, gonna have to make another super funny looking character again.

KingCraigXPosted:

Miss Maybe they can bring back 1 vs 100 as well now.


Thats a great idea, that was a belter!

SavitarPosted:

Yet they wont add gamerpics that you can buy. Pointless.

FibrilPosted:

Chat Honestly, these look so much better than the other ones, the others was so plain, now they've added details + better effects, can't wait.


Totally agree. Can't wait to test this out, maybe it will be out first in Preview program >:]

ChatPosted:

Honestly, these look so much better than the other ones, the others was so plain, now they've added details + better effects, can't wait.