That if it were up to Meta we’d have Metaverse in the breakfast cafe too, and that WhatsApp is one of the quietest business units (in terms of not causing trouble) at Facebook today, are two indisputable truths. And it is because the social network that once gave the technology its name has not passed, for several years, at the best of times, Instagram faces a public opinion that is still quite outraged by last year’s revelations about its effects on minors. the indifference with which the company has responded to this issue and its brilliant Metaverse project is facing red numbers in terms of users, and investor concerns are growing over time.

So, when WhatsApp is doing so well and the rest are doing… well, a little less well, how can you act in such a situation? Well, we have two options: the first is to maintain a certain sanitary cord that allows what works well to continue without being tainted by what causes problems. The second possibility is to try to make a connection, perhaps with the confidence that, due to a transitive property or some kind of contagion effect, good karma is shared equally between all parties.

And it seems that in this case, Meta opted for the second option, and as we can read in WABetaInfo, they used beta version 2.22.23.9 of their Android app to do so. start rolling out 3D avatars feature on WhatsApp. At the moment, it’s only available in the listed version, not the iOS beta or the desktop client and web version, so it’s possible that there are still aspects that need to be improved.

Additionally, having this version on your device does not guarantee that you will be able to test this new feature, and at the moment it appears that the feature only reaches certain usersalthough it is possible that the number of accounts with this feature will increase in the short term, and that this limitation is mainly due to Meta wanting to “live” the impact of using this feature on its infrastructure.

Users who have already received it prove that its appearance, in terms of operation, it looks quite similar to Apple Memojisso that we can design an avatar that looks like us, and once we have it ready, WhatsApp will automatically generate different designs that we can use in conversations.