Apple can be planning to add customizable avatars to its iOS Game Center. It’s anything we’ve extended seen with Microsoft’s Xbox Live Avatars as well as Nintendo Miis, but Apple will soon be hopping on the bandwagon. The business has filed for 2 patents entitled “Avatar Editing Environment” and “Personalizing Colors of User Interfaces,” revealing the avatar customization user interface that is in the works for iOS.

Dug up by AppleInsider, the patent applications reveal that the iOS Game Center avatar user interface would begin with a blank canvas and then allow users to choose basic features like type of eyes, nose, mouth, and hair, etc. Other accessories like glasses to hats can also be added. All of the selections, including rotating as well as resizing, would definitely be easily made on the multi-touch screens of the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Both manual and automatic avatar creation is offered to simplify the process and similar to how avatars work in Wii games and Xbox Kinect games, the iOS Game Center avatars would also appear inside games. They will additionally be displayed on users’ profiles along with users’ game scores and achievements. The patent applications were originally filed earlier this year in April.


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