Headed for the future

Create a digital you. Connect with friends. Engage with avatars in the virtual space.

What is Chudo and why we are building it

Chudo is a virtual social platform where you meet with friends, communicate and express emotions.
Big picture
Virtual reality is gradually encroaching on our digital lives. Chudo’s team is envisioning a future of distant socializing with human interaction occurring between digital avatars.
Problem
With the mass consumer adoption of extended reality, the need for interpersonal communication does not disappear. Meanwhile, current text-based messaging solutions are extremely inconvenient on VR interfaces and audio streams don’t fully reflect the emotional dimensions of a conversation.
Solution
Chudo is disrupting online communication by shifting it from text and audio to animation-based content, using digital avatars to enable emotion rich interpersonal communication in the virtual space.
Approach
At the intersection of communication and entertainment, Chudo is delivering best in class avatar technologies powered by AI to connect and engage people on several platforms, starting with mobile.

Timeline

2018
January 2018
Chudo product idea born
2019
May 2019
Feature: AR Avatars in Camera.
Technology: AI Avatar Personalization, Facial Performance Capture
August 2019
300,000 users acquired
September 2019
Feature: Chats with personalized iMotes.
Technology: Data Transfer Protocol, Media Transfer Mechanism, High-Performance Binary Animation Engine with Integrated Physics
December 2019
600,000 users acquired
2020
April 2020
Feature: Voice Expressions with Avatars.
Technology: AI Speech-Driven Facial Animation
May 2020
Feature: VR Spaces with Real-time Calls.
Technology: Group Calls with Real-time Avatar Expressions Transmission
AR/VR Mass Adopted
Near future
Chudo Integration into AR/VR Hardware

Newsroom

May 4, 2020
Chudo is launching virtual spaces on mobile to enable avatar based distant socializing
At the intersection of communication and entertainment, Chudo™ is delivering avatar technologies powered by AI to connect and engage people in the virtual space on several platforms, starting with mobile.
September 5, 2019
Magic Unicorn joins AWS Activate
Magic Unicorn INC, the team behind Chudo, today announced it has joined the AWS Activate program.
March 18, 2019
Magic Unicorn joins NVIDIA Inception
Magic Unicorn INC, the team behind Chudo, today announced it has joined the NVIDIA Inception program, which is designed to nurture startups revolutionizing industries with advancements in AI and data sciences.

Chudo Team

Chudo is a product of Magic Unicorn, a New York based venture studio. The company builds software primarily in the mobile artificial intelligence and augmented reality spaces.

Magic Unicorn’s previous products and achievements include Magic (Apple awarded as “Best of 2017”, part of Hasbro's Transformers marketing campaign) and MakeApp (1.5 million users and 1,500 media mentions).