VTubeMe vs Ready Player Me

On December 19, 2025, Netflix announced it had acquired Ready Player Me, the Estonian avatar platform used by 25,000+ developers. On January 31, 2026, Ready Player Me shut down its public services — the online avatar creator, developer APIs, and PlayerZero. The technology now lives on only inside Netflix's own gaming platform.

In practice this means: you can no longer create a Ready Player Me avatar, log into the creator, or export anything from the platform. Apps that embedded RPM avatars are migrating to other pipelines.

If you're here because you wanted an RPM avatar for VTubing, you have two realistic paths. If you still have a GLB file exported before the shutdown, you can convert it to VRM manually in Blender — the step-by-step is below. If you don't, the fastest replacement is a tool that does what RPM did (selfie → 3D avatar) but outputs VTuber-ready VRM natively: VTubeMe turns one photo into a rigged .vrm + GLB in a few minutes, $7.99 one-time.

Short answer: not directly. Ready Player Me avatars export as GLB (glTF), not as VRM. GLB is a general-purpose 3D format — it carries the mesh, textures, and skeleton, but not the VTuber-specific data that VRM adds on top: a standardized humanoid bone map, facial blendshapes for lip-sync and expressions, and look-at (eye-tracking) behavior. That's why dropping a raw RPM GLB into VSeeFace, Warudo, or 3tene doesn't 'just work' the way a real VRM does.

You can technically convert a GLB to VRM in Blender using the UniVRM add-on — mapping the humanoid bones, defining blendshapes, and setting up spring bones by hand. It's a fiddly, multi-step manual process. And with Ready Player Me's public avatar creator wound down, you can no longer generate new avatars to convert in the first place.

If your goal is a VRM avatar for VTubing, the reliable path is a tool that outputs VRM natively. VTubeMe turns a single selfie into a standard .vrm (plus a GLB) in minutes — already rigged, with blendshapes and look-at, ready to load straight into any VTuber app. No Blender, no manual conversion.

Because Ready Player Me only exports GLB, turning one into a usable VRM takes a manual conversion. Here's the realistic path — and a faster alternative that skips it.

Manual conversion (GLB → VRM in Blender): 1) Export your avatar's GLB from Ready Player Me. 2) Install Blender and the UniVRM add-on. 3) Import the GLB and map every bone onto the VRM humanoid rig. 4) Build the facial blendshapes (BlendShapeProxy) for blinking, lip-sync and expressions. 5) Add spring bones so hair and cloth move. 6) Export as .vrm and test it in VSeeFace or Warudo. Expect an afternoon of trial and error — and remember Ready Player Me's public creator is shut down, so there's no way to make a new avatar to convert anyway.

The faster alternative — a native VRM from a photo: with VTubeMe you skip the export-and-convert dance entirely. 1) Upload one selfie. 2) The AI builds a photorealistic 3D model that looks like you. 3) Tweak hair, outfit and accessories. 4) Download a standard .vrm (plus a GLB), already rigged with blendshapes and look-at. It loads straight into VSeeFace, Warudo, 3tene, VNyan and any other VRM app — no Blender, no bone mapping, no exporter settings.