VTubers — online personalities who use motion-capture-powered manga- and anime-inspired avatars to interact with the world alongside games, over YouTube, and in other places — have become big business, with the most popular of them collectively racking up hundreds of millions of hours of viewership in a month, along with loyal fan bases, lucrative sponsorships … Continue reading Hyper raises $3.6M from Amazon and more for its iPhone-based, VTuber-friendly avatar platform