Create a deepfake and donate NFT. 5 ideas for cool congratulations on VKontakte

In 2022 "In contact withpresented many novelties and solutions. Here appeared digital avatars vmoji, proprietary deepfake technology, NFT. Familiar services like "VK Messenger" and "VK Calls" also got cool updates. All this can (and should!) be used so that your New Year's greetings are not lost in the news feed.

1. Congratulate on behalf of a celebrity

Yegor Creed, Olga Buzova, Sergey Zhukov and other stars can wish a happy New Year to your loved ones. And for free. You can try on the faces of celebrities with the help of the "Deepfake" function.

To make such a congratulation, shoot a short video right in the editor "VK Clips”- you need to keep within 3 minutes. Then tap on the emoji with arrows in the upper right corner - this button will open the gallery with star faces. It remains to choose who exactly will read the wishes, and publish. 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.

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2. Give an NFT avatar

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 of Hogwarts. Recently, VKontakte launched a service VK NFTs. Now you can conduct transactions 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 NFT from one of the popular marketplaces or even make it from your own illustration. For example, process a photo in a neural network. It remains to send a gift to a friend and do 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 the profile picture, the social network will highlight it with a neon hexagonal frame. A friend will also 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 owns it, what collection it is from, whether there is additional value - this data appears when a friend adds NFT to his storefront.

3. Play "Secret Santa" in the mini app

Find out what a person would like to receive for the holiday, and do not forget to buy this particular thing - 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 services to create wishlists - lists of wants. So, in "wishes» Easily collect examples of gifts or entire collections of real products from stores. You can see what your friends dream about, and they, in turn, will see your list. And if you want to keep at least a drop of holiday surprise, play Secret Santa with your friends. For this, VKontakte also has a special widget.

By the way, about games. On the social network, you can get stuck in thematic New Year's quests and get a little distracted from the pace of preparation for the holidays. For example, in "Lochka 2023» players slowly decorate the clearing, creating a New Year's mood for themselves. And if at the end of December you like to take stock 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, you don’t need to download anything, the services work inside the social network.

4. Decorate messages with stencils and holiday stickers

This life hack is for those who prefer the usual correspondence. Chats in "VK Messenger» can be coolly upgraded with holiday attributes. To get started, you should change the standard white background to a New Year 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 also 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.

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5. Get together for a phone call in the New Year's decorations and show off your "revived" avatars

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 congratulation as atmospheric as possible, put it on the background in "VK calls» something new year. A couple of clicks on the "Virtual Background" tab - and instead of a boring wall, you have a technological box with gifts behind you. By the way, recently in this service there was a function of joint video viewing. Thanks to it, you and your loved ones will be able to laugh at videos where pets knock over Christmas trees, or even launch a festive movie.

And instead of you, a virtual vmoji avatar can come to the call - it can be created based on a photo. He will talk, blink and express emotions, and you don'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 character's picture in real time, adjusting its movements to the user's speech. This feature will definitely come in handy if you are not a big fan of real video on calls.

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