EON Reality, the world’s leading interactive 3D software provider, and Darwin Dimensions [from Montreal] — creators of Evolver, the world’s first 3D Avatar Portal, today announced a partnership on two important projects which serve customers through provision of rich and compelling 3D immersive experiences.

The projects deliver breakthroughs in several aspects of 3D collaborative applications and will enhance users’ abilities to communicate more effectively online, and help to revolutionize the way organizations leverage their digital assets. EON Reality’s technology delivers the highest quality real time rendering solutions for 3D immersive applications, while Evolver puts high fidelity avatar creation and customization into the hands of everyday web users. Together, EON Reality and Evolver will enable users to optimize their 3D digital experiences with great customization and incredible ease of use. […]

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Yesterday Darwin Dimensions [from Montreal], the company behind Evolver, announced the launch of Avatara, a website allowing users to create 3D, animated avatars and share them on social networks. Unsurprisingly, there are a fair amount of "Avatar"-themed avatars already in the galleries.  Avatara supports widgets for posting avatars to Facebook, MySpace, iGoogle, and many other networks, though I didn’t see anything for simply embedding an avatar directly through HTML.

Darwin’s main business is in its toolkit for creating 3D avatars for use in games and virtual worlds, so the avatars have a bit more of an uncanny valley feel to them than the toony avatars traditionally passed around on social networks like Meez or WeeMees. However, plenty of avatars have already been created and are being shared on Avatara, some for free and some for sale. […]

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3D character model and avatar tool developer Evolver [from Montreal’s Darwin Dimensions] said Thursday that its service will be integrated into game engine provider Emergent’s Gamebryo LightSpeed development system.

"Our partnership with Emergent provides LightSpeed developers with an easy way to integrate custom 3D characters into their latest projects at a fraction of the production time, effort and costs of traditional modeling and rigging methods," said Brian Nilles, Evolver CEO.

Evolver’s system is a web-based application that allows users to design and customize 3D models. Users choose from a library of facial and body characteristics from Evolver’s website, or they can use a photograph. They can then export the avatar.