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Roadmap

AVATAR is a local-first VRM companion: thin presenter first, then adapters (agents, local inference, hardware). Open issues in brackets; vision items may not have tickets yet.

Next

Near-term product work on the desktop companion.

Motion & triggers

  • Local agent/event bus so external tools can drive the avatar (#6)
  • Keyword → animation mapping table (#7) — thin consumer of the bus; intent detection stays pluggable
  • Additive Animations menu — keep bundled clips, append custom, scroll + search (#46)
  • Optional idle VRMA loop (#8)
  • VRM facial expressions (presets + triggers) (#43)

Voice & presence

  • Reactive glass-bar live dot (amplitude + capture status) (#42)
  • Improve lip-sync beyond amplitude cycling (#9)
  • Clearer capture-permission and privacy copy (#12)

Appearance & performance

  • Avatar thumbnail follow-ups (pre-warm, sidecars, cache prune) (#21)
  • Cap stage WebGL DPR + low-power preference (#48)
  • Environments accordion flicker (still open after picker posters) (#22)
  • Optionally re-encode / shorten bundled stage env GIFs (Code / Bloom) — stage RAM follow-up from #22 / #49

Quality & docs

  • Docs visual overhaul (reshoot screenshots / GIFs, layout rules) (#33)
  • Editorial pass — consistency, install path, dead ends (#14)
  • Label usage guide for triage (#29)
  • SECURITY.md vulnerability reporting (#26)
  • Asset license audit + machine-readable manifest (#11)
  • Harden VRoid Hub VRM download for restrictive networks / CDN paths

Distribution

  • Code-signed Windows installer (#5)
  • Public product site + launch / coverage push
  • Microsoft Store packaging (after signing)

Later / vision

Longer arc — plug-and-play adapters, not hard-coded models. See also Your AI Needs a Physical Social Life.

Local AI interface

  • Ollama adapter (local LLM) as a first-class “brain” source
  • Local voice-model adapter (TTS/STT pipeline beyond system audio capture)
  • Pluggable Ollama → voice → avatar → optional local DB pipeline
  • Parse local inference streams for keywords / tones → mapped events (anim / expression)
  • Optional semantic / embedding triggers on top of the bus (#7 follow-up)

Hardware / edge

  • Slim / compact build path for low-resource devices
  • Raspberry Pi / edge Linux companion (offline-capable)
  • ESP32 + CYD (or similar) display mode — UI on device, inference on host first
  • Fully edge offline path when the board can run the stack

Personalization ecosystem

  • Cosmetics / skins layer beyond current VRM samples
  • Shareable customization packs (avatars, expressions, animations, cosmetics)
  • “Companion gadget” framing: collect, customize, carry

Social / ALS

  • Social layer for autonomous logical systems (physical / social presence)

Landed on main since v0.7.0

  • Clearer Voice capture-permission and privacy copy (#12)

v0.7.0 — Shipped

  • Motion Deck — one-shot hotkeys without changing Animations selection (#24, #51)
  • Stage command layer + animation.play mode: once (#6, #50, #51)
  • Custom animations folder — Settings → Directories → Animations (#23, #45)
  • Production builds omit custom/ env media by default (#13, #44)
  • Maintainer release checklist (#28, #47)
  • Environment picker still posters + lazy custom folder reads (#22 related, #49)
  • README badge cleanup (drop CI badge; VRM Docs → vrm.dev/en)
  • Avatar re-select no longer hides the stage (#6, #50)

v0.6.0 — Shipped

  • Broader CI (lint / test / build) (#4, #34, #35)
  • ESLint coverage for Electron + build scripts (#34)
  • Package directory rename avatar-demo/ → avatar/
  • Desktop companion GIFs (AVATAR_M5_*) (#3, #32)
  • dev:desktop concurrently -k teardown (#37, #38)
  • Custom environment library blob revoke-after-replace (#39, #40)
  • Citation: Heng-Cheng Hsu in CITATION.cff (#41)

v0.5.0 — Shipped

  • Static Appearance avatar thumbnails (bundled + custom-folder cache) (#10, #20)
  • View on VRoid Hub from hearted-model conditions gate (#18, #19)
  • Avatars guide rename (docs/avatars.md) + issue-reporting checklist (#25, #27, #30, #31)
  • VRM dispose on swap + dev:desktop localhost fix (#20)

v0.4.0 — Shipped

  • User Directories for avatars / environments (issue #2 redesign)
  • Appearance Skins removed (Directories / VRoid Hub instead)
  • Zenodo concept DOI + README citation badge

v0.3.0 — Shipped

  • VRoid Hub bring-your-own OAuth + Appearance picker (session-only models)
  • VRM 1.0 facing fix + settings version 2 migration
  • Issue templates + label sync CI
  • Unversioned AVATAR Installer branding art

v0.2.0 — Shipped

  • Electron desktop overlay (snap, pin/windowed, window scale, device loopback)
  • VRMA playback + Default greeting/loop sequence
  • Gear menus: Appearance / Voice / Camera / Animations / Settings
  • Drop-in avatarN.vrm catalog
  • Persisted config.yaml settings + reset
  • Documentation, screenshots, asset credits
  • Windows NSIS installer (npm run dist:win)
  • GitHub Release download path for AVATAR-Setup-0.2.0.exe