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 allows you to flip a single selfie into a number of lifelike avatars.
Though there are a number of in style AI avatar apps already in the marketplace, like Lensa AI, Wombo needs to present 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 pictures, Wombo Me solely requires one selfie and might generate pictures nearly immediately, Wombo CEO Ben-Zion Benkhin informed TechCrunch in an interview.
Wombo Me is supposed to be extra enjoyable, versus useful. The app’s description notes that you would be able to share the avatars with your mates and throughout social media, and possibly even use them on platforms like LinkedIn and Tinder to seize each your professionalism and persona.
The app allows you to do issues like attempt on the persona of celebrities, film characters or superheroes with a easy faucet. You too can attempt new hair colours, types or make-up traits, amongst different issues. Plus, you’ll be able to create gender-swapped pictures 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, so it asks you to simply present a single picture after which as quickly as you press proceed, you see 10 pictures of you in distinctive alternate realities,” Wombo’s head of AI Parshant Loungani informed 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 photographs that we generate to mainly perceive their desire and replace it the following time.”
When you’re finished swiping by means of the set of pictures supplied, you have got the selection to flick thru a catalog or 5 to 10 totally different packs of avatars that embody pictures of your self in LinkedIn-like headshots, Instagrammable footage, enchanted characters, cartoon characters, meme characters and extra. Some avatar packs are free, whereas others value $2.99, $3.99, $4.99 or $7.99.
Picture Credit: Wombo
Benkhin says Wombo Me gives high-quality pictures which can be similar to, and even higher than, what’s out there in the marketplace proper now. Plus, he believes that because the output is produced from only a single picture nearly 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 power to generate content material of a consumer from a single selfie will get tied right into a deeper platform expertise. As an illustration, if a complete group of associates is on the app and it has realized what every individual 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 appear to be and might generate imagery of us. Now you can begin robotically producing content material for social the place a number of persons are doing one thing attention-grabbing. 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 offer a 10- to 20-second voice clip together with video of them transferring their head in a sure manner, in an effort to then create a multimodal identification of theirs. The identification might then be used to generate content material like dancing movies or interactions with associates.
Benkhin believes that though AI already performs an enormous position in shopper apps like Instagram and TikTok by way of curating feeds, the know-how will more and more be used for media creation sooner or later.
“We predict the following 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 customized content material for customers utilizing AI. And we expect that’s the following period on social media. We predict it’s an enormous alternative, and with each product and have we make, we’re taking a step in that route.”
Wombo Me is on the market worldwide on each iOS and Android beginning right this moment.
The brand new app has some large footwear to fill, as its predecessor Dream by Wombo was a viral success and named Google’s “Finest App” in america 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 No. 30 for downloads in Graphics & Design on the U.S. App Retailer.