Why Codemiko might be the most exciting innovation to come out of live streaming
With the rise of VTubers(Virtual Youtubers) popularity there is always someone that takes one step further…the talent and beauty of this project is awespiring, not only as a developer but as storyteller that wants desperatly to connect with the audience and CodeMiko Project does just that, immersive and interactive twitch stream, also shining and blowing everyones mind…and it is well in it’s way of becoming a innovative masterpiece of internet history, currently CodeMiko has a little over 200 thousand followers on her twitch channel and more than 10 thousand active viwers per stream.
Virtual Youtubers use A.I to change appearence and entertain their audiences with a 3D character, opening the envelop and raising the bar for worldwide broadcasters. Miko is a fully rendered 3D Character in the forefront of streaming entertainment. The Codemiko Project is created using Unreal Engine and the motions are captured by a Xsens Motion Capture Suit. The rigging(mapping miko’s body), coding, engeneering and development was done The Technician, in his own words “This is the technician speaking! I am using an Xsens suit and Unreal Engine for Miko. The devving/engineering is all done by me and Miko was 100 percent modeled by me + rigged.”, and it is most impressive. CodeMiko’s stream are interactive, her model can change and chat, donations(bits) can customize Miko’s appearence, give her a big head, make her dance, drop bodies in her room or just Nuke Miko in her apartment, Codemikos twitch page describes the project as “quasi interactive rpg, where it’s kind of like an arcade and a game and a stream and an RPG at the same time.”
Miko can also get out of her motion capture mode and walk like a game character in her apartment, which is absolutely amazing and inovative. As far as content goes her streams are Interviews with other streamers, talking with chat and hanging out. Miko has a wonderful personality, she is charming, funny and glitchy…well, in her own words “Hi there, i’m Miko! I am a bit glitchy but wholesome! I’m a game character who failed pretty much due to my glitch. My glitch is a corruption in my file and it completely changes my personality. Don’t listen to anything my glitch says.” her “glitches” have unexpected and unpredictable effects, they are always welcome and add to Miko’s charm, and it’s a working progress, so real bugs and glitches can happen from time to time, but we all think that is way more entertaining to have a glitched Miko to watch.
If by any means you felt incline to check out this amazing project and the wonderful Miko on her Twitch channel “codemiko”, there you can find the channel’s schedule. The bar has been raised, and live broadcast has been changed, maybe opened a whole new frontier for entertainment, and it is AMAZING.
