Client

Alienware

Year

2024

Tools

Figma

After Effects

Solid Works

Categories

UX

Live-Streaming

Product

Sponsored

Team

Myself | Interaction Designer

Jiayu | Industrial Designer

Mu | Industrial Designer

Client

Alienware

Year

2024

Tools

Figma

After Effects

Solid Works

Categories

UX

Live-Streaming

Product

Sponsored

Team

Myself | Interaction Designer

Jiayu | Industrial Designer

Mu | Industrial Designer

Opening new doors for Alienware, this project explores the world of faceless live-streaming through Avaware, a digital/physical product designed to streamline the live-streaming process for emerging content creators. Users can create personalized AI-generated avatars, stream through the Avaware platform to sites like Twitch or YouTube, and manage short-form content across multiple social platforms.

Live Streaming

Beyond streaming football games and movies, many content creators have become live-streamers with millions of people watching them. Even beyond live-streaming, there has been a wave of live-streamers who don't even show their face and use an avatar to interact with their fans. This has been such a hit that in November of 2024, the second most popular streamer on Twitch was Ironmouse, a faceless streamer or more accurately, a Vtuber. Just as there are many pros to being a faceless streamer like having privacy and being expressive in how you show yourself, there are also cons like difficulties creating an avatar for yourself and streaming outside your house. With Avaware, all of this can be possible and makes faceless streaming easier to get into especially for newcomers who are nervous about showing their face on the internet.

Creating an Avatar

First start with creating your avatar. Powered with AI, enter a simple prompt and start personalizing your avatar.

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Hardware

Avaware comes with a head, arm, and clip sensors to track you every move. For purposes of privacy and mobile use, physical hardware is beneficial over just camera sensors to prevent accidental face reveals and potential collabrations with other Avaware users.

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Streaming

Start your stream directly with Avaware with a built in streaming / record platform that connects to streaming sites. Control the way you show yourself on camera through different avatars or different background spaces. For when your on break, have AI takeover your avatar and entertain your audience.

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On The Go

One big issue that faceless live-streamers face is the impossibility to stream away from your setup. With Avaware, the impossible becomes possible, being able to leave your computer and directly stream through your phone all while using your avatar. With the growing trend of IRL streaming, we want to give our users the capabilities of any other streamer.

The Avaware app also has the capabilities to manage any short form content made with your avatar making it easy to quickly make a reel or tiktok and upload it to multiple social media apps.

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Community

The streaming space has a huge community of people collaborating, sharing, and watching together streamer and viewer. The community tab adds to the community by creating a hub to share fun clips of streamers, trending avatars, and popular environments streamers use in their setup.

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Final Thoughts

Working on this project with my team members and the client was a very fun challenge showing my skills as the interaction designer in the group. This project was one of the first times I worked with a client in the gaming industry allowing my personal passion to take forth and create something unique to the gaming market. Within the group, I was involved in the visual and interactive aspects of the project shaping what would it like to be a faceless streamer and solving the challenges they have. Avaware's purpose is to grow a trending niche group such as faceless live-streaming into a realistic path for introverted, upcoming streamers to start their journey.

Process

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