Animate Your Video Chat with Fix8

All you need is a web cam. Once online, you can select facial and other accessories to make you look like the real thing, whatever that is. Fix8 can also manipulate your voice and give you other editing tools to really mess around with your…face…avatar…digital persona…virtual self….

Besides video chat, you can also use good old fashioned IM to show off any of your own digital version. A mobile edition is supposed to hit the street "real soon now." In the meantime, you must download a PC application. Windows only. Yuk! Can't recommend you, Fix8 till you go multi-platform!


Several other companies let you record greetings and messages with personalized avatars. While Logitech was one of the earliest players, the most cost-effective business implementation I've found so far is from SitePal.

With Fix8, once you create the video, you can broadcast it on social sites and IM services including AOL, MSN, Skype and Yahoo. The company’s statement says “real-time” in several places, but it really NOT real-time communication via video - you must do the recording first. I couldn't test this yet, but we’re checking.

Fix8 has partnered with the Shanghai Media Group to offer something called “AuditionsTV,” where you can submit fix8 content for insertion into live or taped programming. And, if you think you have yen for it, you can search for TV auditions in your geographical area, served to you automatically - now, THAT'S COOL - and submit yourself.