#iso 12

Hands-on with iOS 12’s Memoji shows they’re great

“Everyone’s making avatars now: Nintendo started it with its Mii in 2006, on the wildly popular Wii console. Microsoft quickly ‘borrowed’ that idea for Xbox Avatars. Bitmoji — first an independent company, later purchased by Snap — popularized the personalized emojis on mobile devices. And Apple’s Animoji, Samsung’s AR Emoji and Facebook’s Oculus VR avatars all followed,” Scott Stein and Shara…