Avatars, one for eveyone?
“A virtual representation of a person or a person’s interactions with others in a virtual environment, conveying a sense of someone’s presence (known as telepresence) by providing the location (position and orientation) and identity; examples include the graphical human figure model, the talking head, and the real-time reproduction of a three-dimesional human image”.
Apart from the virtual worlds’ trend such as Second Life I was talking about, Avatars seem to be the other fashion feature of the Internet (which is actually used a lot in virtual worlds).
A lot of websites offer users to create their own avatars from a predefined model: change clothes and small physical specificities like hair or eye color for example. Those avatars can be used in the website where they have been created, in addition with community features and also integrated in a virtual world like Zwinky and its new Zwinktopia:
From Avatars: www.zwinky.com
To Virtual World integration:
A lot of websites offering avatar creation now make this service paying, and people can then use their own customized avatars on their personal websites, on eBay, or on any other support.
What I couldn’t find during my researches was one offering to create an avatar from your own image or picture.. Any idea? 
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Tags: 3d, avatar, digital world, games, virtual world