Meta announced that it's offering new body shapes, improved hair and clothing textures to its avatars. Over one billion avatars have also been created across its platforms, the company said.

The user will then have a choice of body shape: the company is introducing two curvier body shapes, and it will start updating some of the other existing options to make them more differentiated. Meta has, in the past allowed you to choose your avatar's body type, but the company was saying that the options available were all similar, which is why it's launching new options.

More than that, Meta overhauled how an avatar's hair, clothing, and eyes appear in stickers, profile pictures, cover photos and so much more.

"Sparing you the nitty-gritty technical breakdown, we've added additional detail and realism to both hair and clothing — meaning whether you're rocking a clean fade and suit or bedhead and sweats, your avatar should pop a little better than before," the company wrote in a blog post. It's a solid glow-up, right? We've also tweaked our lighting model to add a bit more reflective sheen to your eyes, making them sparkle and come to life with your personality."

Meta has also teamed up with PUMA to bring seven new outfits to the Meta Avatars Store, which launched last year and lets you buy digital clothes for their avatars.

The company first had avatars in 2020 and has been constantly updating them since as a way to compete with Snap's Bitmoji. Meta has also just recently updated the avatars by adding more expressions, faces, skin tones, and accessibility devices.

Today's announcement comes at a time when Meta just opened up Horizon Worlds to teen users in the U.S. and Canada, having earlier restricted it to only users above 18 years old. The move has come under some legislation law makers and children's rights activists, who urged Meta to reconsider opening up the platform to the young.

The new follows a day after despite big losses in its metaverse investments, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it a point to tell investors that he is not making a u-turn into the AI lane. Rather, he sees AI as technology that works in tandem with the metaverse.