Your Game, New Revenue – Introducing the Developer Rewards Pool

How to integrate Player Zero SDK in Unity

With the Player Zero SDK, it's easier than ever for developers to bring cross-game avatars into their games. in this blog you will learn how to integrate Player Zero SDK in Unity

​​Bring Ready Player Me avatars to your Discord Activities

Learn how you can bring Ready Player Me avatars and your game to Activities in Discord

Ready Player Me Avatars Take Center Stage in Ubisoft’s Just Dance VR: Welcome to Dancity

In collaboration with Ubisoft and Soul Assembly, Ready Player Me avatars are stepping into the virtual dance floor in the all-new Just Dance VR: Welcome to Dancity, available now on Meta Quest headsets

AI is Just Getting Started Boosting Indie Studios to the Big Leagues

Learn how AI is transforming indie game development, helping small studios create high-quality games and compete with AAA titles using tools like Unity Muse and Ready Player Me

​​Ready Player Me’s Full-body XR Avatars Now Support Meta’s Movement SDK

Full-body XR avatars now support Meta Movement SDK and its body, eye, and facial tracking technologies

Mastering Character Customization with Ready Player Me’s Next-Gen Unity SDK

Ready Player Me’s next-gen Unity SDK offers unparalleled flexibility and control for game developers. Learn how it can help you turn your character into a customization system.

How User-Generated Content is Shaping the Next Era of Gaming

User-generated content (UGC) has become a force to be reckoned with in the gaming industry, opening up profitable revenue diversification opportunities as it rethinks the way users engage with and even earn from games

What the business impact of UGC signals for indie game developers

Discover how user-generated content (UGC) in games like Fortnite and Roblox is reshaping monetization and engagement, offering indie developers new opportunities to thrive

Makea Games Transforms Character Creation with Next-Gen Ready Player Me Tools

Makea Games Brings Self-Expression to the Future of Parkour Gaming with Supermoves Launch, Utilizing Ready Player Me Next-Gen Tools

Your first look at the next generation of Ready Player Me developer tools

We are building the next generation of Ready Player Me – here's why and what it means for developers like you.

What's New in Ready Player Me — March/April 2024

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in March and April 2024.

How Racino Built a Bespoke Avatar Creation Experience To Fit Their Racing Platform

Learn how Racino built a custom Avatar Creator to provide their users with a unique avatar creation experience to match the aesthetic of their new racing platform.

(Update) Build Your Next XR App or Game in Unity With The Improved Full-body XR Avatars

Our new XR-optimized avatar body type features improved rig, bringing more natural deformations around the arms, wrists and fingers

Introducing Avatar Body Shape Customization

Ready Player Me Avatar Creator now offers body shape customization, giving users four options to choose from

Hiber's New Angry Birds World Is One Of Their Most Engaging Yet

Learn how Hiber and other developers are leveraging Ready Player Me’s brand partnerships to build more engaging experiences.

What's New in Ready Player Me — January/February 2024

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in January and February 2024.

Important Security Alert: Beware of Impersonation Scams

Stay away from scammers impersonating Ready Player Me

4 Ways How Your Game Can Benefit From Custom Avatar Outfits

Learn how custom content can improve your user engagement, retention, revenue, and more

How to build your first Apple Vision Pro app featuring Ready Player Me Avatars and Unity PolySpatial package

In this blog post, we'll guide you through the step-by-step process of building your first Apple Vision Pro app featuring Ready Player Me avatars using the PolySpatial package in Unity. PolySpatial offers a comprehensive set of technologies designed to address the unique challenges associated with developing for Vision Pro.

Announcing the Ready Player Me Developer Forums

Introducing Ready Player Me Developers Forum — a dedicated space for developers to share knowledge, ask questions, engage in discussions, help others, and receive help.

How we used Stable Diffusion to enable geometry-aware avatar outfit texturing

We demonstrate how we used Stable Diffusion and ControlNet to generate textures for Ready Player Me avatar outfits

What's New in Ready Player Me — 2023 Recap

Here's your recap of the biggest new features and improvements that we added to Ready Player Me in 2023.

Introducing Asset Manager 2.0 With Support For Hero Characters

Asset Manager 2.0 gives you complete control over which assets appear in your app or game and in what order and brings support for Hero Characters.

Integrating Ready Player Me Characters Into Diverse Game Art Styles Demo Using Shaders in Unity

In this blog post, we will explore how to better fit Ready Player Me characters to your art style using Shaders in Unity. We’ll use the Toon Shader from Unity Asset Store as an example. You can apply the same process using other shaders, too. We will build a demo featuring an environment from the latest Unity URP Samples to show you how to load your Ready Player Me avatars with a different art style, both in the Unity Editor and during runtime.

What's New in Ready Player Me — November 2023

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in November 2023

(UPDATE) Introducing Avatar Creator 2.0: Streamlined & Rebuilt for Performance

Avatar Creator 2.0, rolling out to the first partners today, brings a streamlined avatar creation experience with fewer steps, improved loading times and stability thanks to the Avatar API.

What's New in Ready Player Me — October 2023

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in October 2023

Enhance Your Ready Player Me Integration With Integrations

Introducing Ready Player Me Integration, a directory of tools, plugins, and extensions developers can use to enhance their Ready Player Me integrations in applications and games.

Tap Into Avatar Economy with Premium Skins Catalog

Sell premium avatar customization options from Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group’s Bravado, Rovio’s Angry Birds, McLaren Racing, and The Voice directly in your app or game.

What's new in Ready Player Me — September 2023

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in September 2023.

Create Custom Avatar Clothes Using Geometry-Aware Generative AI Texturing

New geometry-aware texture generation powered by AI lets you create avatar outfits for your app or game.

Build Your Custom Ready Player Me Avatar Creator in Unity SDK

Use the new Custom Avatar Creator SDK to build a native Avatar Creator directly in your game

Getting Started With Ready Player Me Avatars Integration in Unity

Learn how to get started with the free character creator from Ready Player Me and integrate it into your Unity Game

Uncover Greentown's Mystery With The Stranger Greens Gang

Ready Player Me's latest avatar collection, Stranger Greens, is available now in HiberWorld

Get Your Avatar New Shades From Sunglass Hut

Claim legendary looks from Ray-Ban and Oakley at selected Sunglass Hut locations in the US.

Reimagining the Avatar Creation Pipeline in Games with Generative AI

At Ready Player Me, AI tools are helping us streamline the avatar content creation process — from the first concepts to the final 3D model.

Introducing Asset Designer — Create Custom Avatar Clothes Without 3D Design Tools

Create custom Ready Player Me avatar clothes like shirts, pants, and shoes for your app or game with no 3D tools

What's new in Ready Player Me — August 2023

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in August 2023

Get Started With Ready Player Me's Game-Ready Avatar Animation Library in Unity

Learn how to use the Animator Controller in Unity to animate Ready Player Me avatars using 200+ free, game-ready animations

Introducing Mix-And-Matching Avatar Outfits

You can now create your own avatar outfit by individually selecting the top, bottom, and shoes

Introducing Copilot AI: Your Partner for Seamless Ready Player Me Integration (Update)

Update: Copilot AI is no longer available. Thank you for trying it out!

Four Strategies to Level Up User Retention in Games Using Avatars

Insights on leveraging avatars to keep players engaged, grow retention, and contribute to the overall success of gaming experiences

Change Avatar Creator Theme in Studio

Customize the Avatar Creator to fit the style of your app or game

What's new in Ready Player Me — July 2023

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in July

Keep Track of New Ready Player Me Features With Changelog

The new changelog lets you keep up with the latest changes and updates to Ready Player Me SDKs, API, and the platform as a whole

Smart NPCs with ChatGPT and Ready Player Me Unity SDK

Make a Multiplayer Game In Unity With Photon Unity Networking (PUN) or Unity NetCode Avatar SDK Packages

Ready Player Me Avatar SDK for Unity now supports both Photon Unity Networking (PUN) and Unity NetCode. Use either to create a multiplayer game with Ready Player Me avatars in Unity

Improving Avatar Performance With New Avatar API Options

Introducing new texture format options and a new lod parameter for the Avatar API

Now Available: Account Linking & Guest Accounts

We are very excited to launch new advanced user management tools in the form of Account Linking and Guest Accounts to reduce friction for your users.

What's new in Ready Player Me – June 2023

Here's your recap of what we added to Ready Player Me in June.

Discussing new developer monetization tools with Hiber

Join Hiber and us to discover new developer monetization opportunities available to Ready Player Me developers

Introducing New Monetization Tools For Developers

Introducing a new set of monetization tools for developers. Launching in a limited alpha, and available soon to more partners in a closed beta.

Save The Outer Kingdom From Rabbots With the Help of Ging and Samas

Introducing Avatar Collections – premium avatar assets from Ready Player Me. Buy limited-edition avatars from The Outer Kingdom collection in selected apps

What's New in Ready Player Me – May 2023

Asset Manager & APIs, Dev Diaries with Faraway, new quick start videos, React SDK, and updates to Unity SDK — here's what's new in Ready Player Me in May 2023

Kicking off Developer Diaries Interview Series With Faraway

Dive deep into Faraway's journey to integrate Ready Player Me avatars into Mini Royale: Nations in our new Developer Diaries series.

Upload Custom Outfits and Clothes to Ready Player Me With New Asset Manager and APIs

New Asset Manager and APIs let you create and manage custom clothes and outfits for Ready Player Me avatars in your app or game

What's New in Ready Player Me – April 2023

Updates to Unity and Unreal SDKs, partnerships with Virtex and BOSS, two-way interoperability with Mini Royale: Nations

Working With Faraway to Enable Industry-First, Two-Way Interoperability

Industry-first, two-way interoperability between Mini Royale: Nations game and Ready Player Me avatar platform

Unlocking true avatar interoperability with Mini Royale: Nations

Ready Player Me partners with Mini Royale: Nations to enable two-way integration, allowing players to bring their avatars to both platforms

What's New in Ready Player Me – February 2023

Open-source Unity and Unreal SDKs, AI-powered Ready Player Me Labs, and revamped Developer Docs

Exclusive Archer Outfits For Your Avatars

Claim exclusive archer outfits for Ready Player Me 3D avatars

Get Started With Ready Player Me's Revamped Developer Docs

Introducing completely revamped Ready Player Me Developer Docs v3, making platform onboarding easier for new developers and making the overall structure more intuitive

Where's The Metaverse Heading in 2023

Discussing the technical challenges and the future of the metaverse with Ready Player Me partners

Unleash Your Creativity with AI-Generated Avatar Outfits in Ready Player Me Labs

Ready Player Me Labs are a testing ground for new features of our avatar platform. We are starting with Dall-E powered outfit customization.

How to get started with the Avatar API in Unity

Use the Ready Player Me Avatar API to smoothly integrate a personal avatar creator into your app or game

Introducing Avatar API: The Interoperability Layer for the Virtual Worlds

Avatar API from Ready Player Me is an avatar interoperability layer that improves avatar performance and integration flexibility for virtual worlds, apps, and games

What’s New for Developers: Major Performance Improvements to Avatars

Thanks to the new Avatar API, you have more control over the avatar’s configuration directly from the SDK plugins

House of Math Gamified Learning Math with 3D Avatars

House of Math integrated Ready Player Me avatars into their web-based platform to create a more personalized learning experience.

What’s new for developers: updated Unreal SDK and new Unity example

Learn what's new in the Ready Player Me Unreal SDK and check out our Unity Vuplex example

Ready Player Me x Andreessen Horowitz: Announcing our $56M Series B

We raised $56M in a Series B funding round led by a16z GAMES FUND ONE and a16z crypto

What's New in Ready Player Me – August 2022

2D avatar renders in the Unity SDK, runtime caching, improved docs, and more

How can you get into the metaverse today

What's the metaverse, how to access it, and what platforms you can enter with your 3D avatar

3 Things To Include In Your Brand's Metaverse Strategy

Learn how your brand can embrace the metaverse through digital products, NFTs, immersive experiences, virtual worlds, and more.

Best Examples Of How Brands Embrace The Metaverse Today

More brands are establishing their presence in the metaverse. Here are some of the best examples featuring Adidas, Dior, Warner Bros., and others

adidas Originals bring Ozworld avatars to Ready Player Me

adidas Originals are bringing Ozworld avatars to hundreds of metaverse apps and games with the Ready Player Me platform

How To Visually Evaluate Image Classifier Using StyleGAN2

We are evaluating image classifiers by exploring StyleGAN2 latent space and looking at the performance of the hairstyle classifier

Mona Integrates Fast And Easy To Use Metaverse Avatar Creator

Learn how Mona integrated Ready Player Me avatar creator directly into their Unity web-based metaverse platform

Supercharging Social Media Profiles With Personal 3D Avatars

Use your Ready Player Me with Koji to supercharge your social media profiles with your own 3D avatar

VRChat Removes Friction For New Users With a Personal Avatars Creator

Take a selfie and use the Ready Player Me avatar maker to create custom VRChat avatars. It's a free online avatar creator for VRChat.

We Are Bringing CryptoPunks To The Metaverse As 3D Avatars

Our genesis NFT drop is finally here. Get your Ready Player Me Punk 3D avatar for the supported metaverse apps and games

Ready Player Me and NFTs: Why and How?

Why are we adding NFTs to Ready Player Me and what does it mean for our users and Partners

Fitness Tools For The Metaverse with Dilan Shah, Co-Founder & CEO of YUR

Dilan Shah, Co-Founder & CEO of YUR, shares his thoughts about "making fitness a game" and the future of working out in VR and the metaverse

Supporting VR Developers in Early-Stages with Orla Harris, COO of SideQuest

Listen to the interview with Orla Harris, COO and Co-Founder of SideQuest, the early-stage platform for VR apps and games.

Developing Virtual Reality Apps & Games with Ryan Feldman from Immersed

We invited Ryan Feldman to tell us more about the early days of developing for VR and the role of productivity tools in the metaverse.

How To Use 3D Character Design Software To Avatars To Your Mobile App or Game

Get started with the Ready Player Me 3D Character Design Software for Android and iOS mobile apps and games based on Unity, Unreal Engine, or React Native.

Customize Your Avatar With Outfits From The Metaverse Fashion Leader RTFKT

The Ready Player Me avatar platform is getting a unique collection of virtual sneakers and a jacket from RTFKT.

Introducing the Ready Player Me Hub – your passport to the metaverse is here

Create and manage your 3D avatars for 260+ supported apps, games, and VR experiences

Immersed goes cross-platform with Ready Player Me avatars

Immersed lets you work on up to 5 virtual screens and collaborate with your colleagues – all in virtual reality. Now, with Ready Player Me.

Blockchain-based Somnium Space VR Metaverse Adds Support for Ready Player Me 3D Avatars

Starting today, you can explore virtual parcels in the Somnium WEB client using your Ready Player Me avatar created from a photo.

Ready Player Me & Rovio Talking About 3D Avatars and Virtual Identities For Games and Metaverses

Last week, our CEO Timmu Tõke was a guest on the Tomorrow with Rovio podcast. Ben Mattes, Studio Head at Rovio, talked with Timmu about avatars in games and beyond. Listen to the episode here.

Best Animation And Motion Capture Software That Works With Ready Player Me Full-Body 3D Avatar Maker

Create full-body 3D avatars with a selfie and animate the characters using animation software like Mixamo and DeepMotion.

Get Started With Avatar SDK And Create 3D Characters For Unreal Engine Games

Learn how to add 3D avatars to your Unreal Engine game with the free Ready Player Me Avatar SDK

Talking about the future of VR content creation with LIV's Co-Founder & CEO, AJ 'Dr Doom' Shewki

Timmu Tõke (Ready Player Me's CEO) and AJ 'Dr Doom' Shewki (LIV's CEO) had a quick chat about LIV, the current state of VR content creation and the role that avatars play in it.

Tivoli Cloud VR is building an open-source metaverse with Ready Player Me 3D avatars

Interview with Caitlyn Meeks, CEO of Tivoli Cloud VR Inc.

Finding the right balance between realistic and abstract 3D avatars

Here's what we learned about realistic-looking 3D models after 7 years of creating full-body avatars.

Talking About Realistic 3D Avatars and Future of Work with MeetinVR's CEO

What's the future of work and why realistic 3D avatars are too creepy – watch the interview with Ready Player Me's CEO to learn more about it

Making Virtual Meetings More Real With Personal Avatars

Use Ready Player Me 3D avatars in MeetinVR

Personal Avatars Are *The* Way To Make Virtual Events Feel More Real

Virtual events are more real than ever. And we need a way to represent ourselves when we attend them. Here's why 3D avatars are THE way.

October Product Update - Full-Body Avatar Creator

Ready Player Me Full-Body 3D Avatar Creator Product Update