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18+ gating
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The 18+ gating tag on WindowsForum.com covers content related to age-restricted features in Microsoft products, specifically the Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits. This feature uses VASA-1 technology to create animated, non-photorealistic 3D avatars for voice interaction. Discussions highlight that Microsoft has implemented strict usage guardrails and limited the rollout to the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, indicating a cautious approach to this resource-intensive experiment. The tag focuses on how Microsoft handles age verification and content restrictions for experimental AI-driven features.
Microsoft is quietly testing a Copilot Labs experiment called Portraits that would let users pick from 40 animated, non‑photorealistic 3D avatars — powered by Microsoft Research’s VASA‑1 — and speak to them in voice mode, according to an internal description surfaced by testers; the rollout...
18+gating
ai avatars
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conversational ai
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microsoft copilot
multimodal ai
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