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Marvel Studios' rerelease of Avengers: Endgame, dubbed Encore and featuring about four minutes of new footage teasing Avengers: Doomsday, has pushed the film's worldwide total to $2.9255 billion, edging past Avatar's $2.9237 billion. The Encore opening weekend grossed $86 million globally, the second-biggest rerelease opening ever, before dropping sharply to $18.8 million in its second weekend.
A theatrical re-release of Avengers: Endgame has pushed it past Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all time, generating over $126 million worldwide in its latest run. Disney says the Marvel Cinematic Universe's 38 films have now earned more than $35 billion combined, and that Disney titles occupy seven of the top 10 highest-grossing films ever. Separately, Coyote vs. Acme topped Apple TV's rental charts in the US and Canada after its Tuesday streaming release, holding a 96% Rotten Tomatoes critics' score.
A Verge editor reports that glasses like Xreal One Pro, along with VR headsets such as Meta Quest, Steam Frame, and Apple Vision Pro, can now display side-by-side 3D content at full 1080p resolution per eye. This addresses a longstanding flaw in older 3D technologies, which split resolution or brightness between the two eyes using polarized or active shutter glasses.
Meta is letting users request early access to newly announced Muse features by typing a specific prompt into the Muse app itself, rather than filling out a traditional signup form. The features, unveiled at Connect 2026, include a video-chat digital avatar, expanded shopping integrations, a more capable Mac app, and support on Meta's AI glasses.
Google has released Live Avatar for Gemini Enterprise users, a tool that pairs a lip-synced video avatar with its conversational AI agent to handle tasks like insurance claims over video chat. The feature can process live audio, screen sharing and video simultaneously while running backend tools and API calls, and follows the recent rollout of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking.
Google has released Live Avatar, a new addition to its Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking models that pairs real-time video personas with the platform's voice dialogue capabilities. The avatars can lip-sync, show facial expressions, and hold fluid conversations while using Gemini's reasoning to fetch data and trigger tool calls mid-dialogue. The feature is limited to Gemini Enterprise customers, who can choose from preset avatars or build custom ones from reference images via enterprise allowlisting, with all output watermarked using Google's SynthID.
Google has unveiled a 'Live Avatar' capability, showcasing a real-time animated digital representation of a person. Commentary following the demo has focused on questioning how convincing and technically sound the feature actually is.
Google has launched Live Avatar, a feature within its Gemini 3.8 Live model that renders an animated persona with lip-syncing and facial expressions during real-time conversations. The feature currently works across the 97 languages Gemini supports without losing video quality, and can display on-screen information while speaking. It is available only to Gemini Enterprise customers, who can choose from preset avatars or build custom ones.
At Meta Connect 2026, Meta announced a batch of updates for its Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including a voice-driven photorealistic hologram avatar to represent wearers during calls, starting as an early-access feature for US WhatsApp users this fall. Meta also expanded heads-up navigation to support cycling and transit directions using landmark-based cues, added a new Explore app for browsing compatible apps, and introduced smaller updates like Dolby Atmos audio, in-glasses photo editing, and mirrored phone notifications. The glasses are also expanding to the UK, Canada, France, Italy and Germany.
A Nuxt project maintainer wrote a post explaining why he removed a Discord member who twice used a Nazi uniform as an avatar, rejecting claims that this was an inappropriate 'political' act for an open source community. He also criticized Ruby on Rails creator DHH, arguing that his views are being normalized partly because of his popular Omarchy Linux distribution.
Paramount+ dropped a nearly three-minute trailer for Avatar: Seven Havens, revealing character voices and story details ahead of its October 9 premiere. The series is set 200 years after The Legend of Korra, in a world fractured into seven havens after a catastrophe that has turned public opinion against Avatars, with new Avatar Pavi at the center of the story alongside a twin sister and a group of friends.
Paramount+ has dropped a fresh trailer for 'Avatar: Seven Havens,' the sequel series to 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. The show is set to premiere on the streaming service on October 9.