But Yuna sometimes shows her face to offer viewers a behind-the-scenes peek at her mocap technology. Also, most VTubers would never dare meet a journalist in person, let alone show their face on stream.
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Since Yuna was a VR animator before she was laid off in the pandemic and created Code Miko - which is now her full-time job - her avatar is far more realistic than most VTubers. Fans call the actual human behind the avatar “the Technician,” but her first name is Yuna. The Code Miko character, for instance, is an NPC (non-playable character) who dreams of starring in a major video game, but she’s too glitchy, so she’s resorted to streaming instead. I’m a big fan of ‘Ready Player One,’ so when I felt like I could make a tiny percent of it, I was really excited.” I wanted to take control of a virtual character and have the audience be able to interact with her live on stream. “I thought it would be really fun to be another character,” the streamer told TechCrunch. To build their virtual personas, streamers use motion-capture (or even just AR face-tracking) technology to embody a virtual avatar and weave a backstory and mythos around the character. Maybe it was the near-hallucinatory exhaustion from day three of a massive online video convention, but unlike so many of the social media stars in the echoing hotel entrance hall, VTubers like Code Miko are sometimes unrecognizable in person.Ī movement originating in Japan, “VTuber” means “virtual YouTuber,” but the culture is also prevalent on other streaming sites like Twitch, where Code Miko has almost a million followers. But when a fashionable Korean American woman approached me, I realized I was half expecting to see a 3D, hyperrealistic animation in front of me, rather than a real human. As I waited to meet Twitch streamer Code Miko in a hotel lobby at VidCon, I spotted an Instagram-famous husky, a fan favorite contestant from Netflix’s “The Circle” and a controversial beauty blogger. It was the world’s largest gathering of internet celebrities.
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