The upcoming Meta Avatars graphics overhaul is being tested by Meta employees.
VR enthusiast Luna has spotted that some Meta employees' Horizon profiles show a completely different avatar style to the current Meta Avatars, and provided UploadVR with links to independently confirm this.
The upcoming overhaul was first announced with a pre-rendered mockup by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta Connect 2022 almost two years ago. At the time he said the overhaul was coming in 2023, but that obviously didn't pan out.
![](https://www.uploadvr.com/content/images/2024/07/Meta-Avatars-with-legs.png)
What Meta Avatars did get last year was legs, in Horizon Home and Horizon Worlds at least, a significant update given they had previously been widely ridiculed for only including the upper body.
The SDK for third-party apps got legs too in December, but they currently aren't animated so developers would have to implement this manually, an arduous task none have yet undertaken.
![](https://www.uploadvr.com/content/images/size/w1200/2023/09/Horizon-Worlds-avatar-legs-group-selfie-1.png)
Meta will likely launch or at least announce the new overhauled avatars at Connect 2024, which will take place on September 25 and 26.