PRISM Live Studio has launched a new 3D VTuber feature for an enhanced mobile live-streaming experience. | Image by NAVER
NAVER (CEO Soo-Yeon Choi) introduced the ‘VTuber’ feature for its PRISM Live Studio app, which enables live streaming of 3D avatars on mobile devices. PRISM Live Studio is the first to apply the widely used VRM (Virtual Reality Model) format to mobile streaming, allowing users to broadcast live 3D avatar streams anytime, anywhere.
Since its launch in March 2019, PRISM Live Studio has become a leading multi-platform app, enabling easy live streaming and video editing across PC and mobile environments. It has been downloaded extensively, with users in over 200 countries generating a minimum of 100,000 live streams daily across platforms like NAVER TV, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch.
Building on its robust streaming technology, NAVER has enhanced the app to support 3D avatar live streaming on mobile, a feature previously limited to PC. The VTuber feature uses the VRM format, allowing users to upload VRM files created with various software without additional equipment. This advancement facilitates broadcasting 3D avatar live streams directly from mobile devices across multiple platforms.
The feature offers extensive customization options, enabling users to adjust their avatar’s expressions, add items, change backgrounds, and modify camera angles and lighting. | Image by NAVER
PRISM Live Studio has integrated login compatibility with VRoidHub, a global platform for sharing 3D avatar images, making it easier for users to access and personalize their avatars. The VTuber feature also includes advanced options for customizing avatar positions, sizes, motion sensitivity, lighting color, and backgrounds. In addition, users can enhance interaction with viewers by incorporating real-time emotional expressions such as joy, happiness, anger, sorrow, and fun. Various items like desks, microphones, and background images can also be added to create immersive live streams.
These user-centric enhancements are expected to attract more 3D avatar live streamers, further strengthening PRISM Live Studio’s position in the mobile streaming app market.
Ji-Chul Song, Development Leader for PRISM Studio at NAVER, commented, “With the ability to stream 3D live content without equipment constraints, we anticipate more diverse and vibrant content. We will continue developing the technologies creators need to enrich the content ecosystem.”
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