In 2022, VKontakte presented many novelties and solutions. vmoji digital avatars, proprietary deepfakes technology, and NFT have appeared here. In the usual services, like "VK Messenger" and "VK Calls", cool updates have also appeared. All this can (and should!) be used so that your New Year's greetings are not lost in the news feed.
Egor Creed, Olga Buzova, Sergey Zhukov and other stars can wish a Happy New Year to your loved ones. And for free. Try on the faces of celebrities with the help of the "Deepfake" function.
To make such a greeting, shoot a short video directly in the editor "VK Clips" — you need to keep within 3 minutes. Then tap on the image of the smiley face with arrows in the upper right corner — this button will open a gallery with star faces. It remains to choose who exactly will read out the wishes and publish them. By the way, when exporting to external sites, such videos are marked with a special watermark so that viewers can easily distinguish deepfakes from videos with real stars.
Take a closer look
It seems that everyone has already heard about NFT, but where and how to buy such a token is a question akin to magic outside Hogwarts. Recently, VKontakte launched the service VK NFT. Now you can perform operations with tokens directly in the social network. If the person you are planning to congratulate is obsessed with technology, give him an NFT avatar.
You can buy an NFT on one of the popular marketplaces or even make it from your own illustration. For example, to process a photo in a neural network. It will remain to send a gift to a friend and not forget a couple of warm words instead of a postcard. In the VK NFT service, he will be able to put such a picture on an avatar, the social network will highlight it with a neon hexagonal frame. And a friend will have a new NFT section, where it will be possible to gradually collect a collection. Information about each token will also be stored there: who its owner is, from what collection it is, whether there is additional value — this data appears when a friend adds an NFT to his showcase.
To find out what a person would like to get for the holiday, and not forget to buy this particular thing is a task with an asterisk. In the pre-holiday turmoil, some distant relative or colleague will definitely get a mug with the symbol of the year. Or maybe something similar will be presented to you.
To prevent this from happening, you can use the services to create wishlist — lists of wishlist. So, in "Wishes" it is easy to collect examples of gifts or whole collections of real goods from stores. You can see what your friends are dreaming about, and they, in turn, will see your list. And if you want to keep at least a drop of a festive surprise, play "Secret Santa" with your friends. To do this, VKontakte also has a special mini-application.
Speaking of games. In the social network, you can get stuck in themed New Year's quests and distract yourself a little from the pace of preparation for the holidays. For example, in "Little 2023", players slowly decorate the clearing, creating a New Year mood for themselves. And if at the end of December you like to sum up and indulge in nostalgic memories, take a look at the application "Time Capsule" — here you can leave a message to yourself or a friend for the next New Year. Moreover, there is no need to download anything, the services work inside the social network.
This life hack is for those who prefer the usual correspondence. Chats in "VK Messenger" can be coolly pumped with festive attributes. To begin with, you should change the standard white background to a New Year's or ice theme. Then you can record a video postcard in a winter stencil. Now there are several frame shapes to choose from: Christmas tree, snowflake, heart and others.
And messages with congratulations can be supplemented with stickers with your personal avatar. To get these, just go to the emoji gallery and find the "Create vmoji" tab there. And then either customize the character yourself, or upload your favorite photo, and the social network will generate a set based on it.
Make stickers
If you like to personally congratulate all your friends, colleagues and relatives on holidays, try organizing a couple of video calls. And to make the greeting as atmospheric as possible, put something New Year's on the background in "VK Calls". A couple of clicks on the "Virtual Background" tab — and instead of a boring wall, you have a technological gift box behind your back. By the way, recently a video sharing feature has appeared in this service. Thanks to her, you will be able to laugh with your loved ones from videos where pets knock over Christmas trees, or even launch a festive movie.
And a virtual vmoji avatar can come to the call instead of you — it can be created based on a photo. He will talk, blink and express emotions, and you won't even have to turn on the camera. This unique development of VKontakte works like this. The technology reads the sound stream on the device and animates the image of the character in real time, adjusting its movements to the user's speech. Such a feature will definitely come in handy if you are not a big fan of real video on calls.
Call your loved ones
