WhatsApp continues to work on the development of new features that will soon be available to all users. Among them is the arrival of the avatars that, for a few months, have been available on Instagram, a platform that, like the messaging ‘app’, is owned by Meta.
The works of WhatsApp for the arrival of avatars with which Internet users can interact with their contacts have been known since the beginning of summer. Now, the site specialized in information about the ‘app’ WABetaInfo has shared information about what the avatars will look like and the functions that users will be able to perform with them when they are available to everyone.
According to this medium, WhatsApp’s plan is that, initially, the user can use his avatar as a ‘sticker’ and that, when the time comes, it will also be possible to use it to hide his image during the development of a videocall.
Indeed, as WABetaInfo has shown in images, the user who creates an avatar will have at their disposal a wide variety of designs intended to express different sensations and situations, as is the case with emoticons and memojis, available on iPhone terminals .
In addition to the above functionalities, the user will also be able to select the image of his avatar as the new profile picture in the messaging application.
no release date
Since the announcement that the future of Meta will pass, yes or yes, through that alternative virtual world known as metaverso, the technology company has made an effort to work on the development of avatars on its different platforms. It should be remembered that, precisely, the avatar represents the user’s body in the company’s current virtual reality platforms, as is the case with Horizon Workrooms y Horizon Worlds.
At the moment, there is no information about when the functionality to create and use an avatar will be available to the bulk of WhatsApp users. However, at the time of the launch, it is expected that it will reach iOS terminals and Android terminals at the same time.