COMPUTERWORLD — Feb 13 — OmniDate is working on a new service that features photo-realistic avatars, online characters that look like you. Users submit a photo, which the service renders as an animated online character. Your avatar can then go on a virtual date in a variety of settings, such as a restaurant or a bar. "How do you go from reading a profile to interacting with a person online and eventually in person?" asks CEO Igo Kotlyar. "Our goal is to bridge that gap."
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Mark Brooks: Avatars are nice, but the real killer app is making the avatars look like the users buy layering a photo onto the avatars. OmniDate has this in the works. That's when I think OmniDate will take off. Its next gen IM, basically. (Full Disclosure: OmniDate has been a client of Courtland Brooks in the past)