VTubeMe vs Ready Player Me

The creator is offline, but the file you downloaded is an ordinary glTF binary and still opens everywhere. What you should use depends on where the avatar is going.

VTubing and streaming (VSeeFace, Warudo, VNyan, 3tene, Desktop Mate): these apps read VRM, not GLB, so the file has to be converted. Drop it into VTubeMe's GLB to VRM converter in the browser — the RPM skeleton is mapped onto the VRM humanoid bones, ARKit-style blendshapes carry over, materials become MToon, and you preview the result in 3D before downloading. Your first conversion is free, and a rig that cannot be mapped refunds itself.

Viewing or editing the model: Blender imports GLB natively (File → Import → glTF 2.0), which is the route if you want to touch the mesh, weights or textures. For a quick look at the rig and textures without installing anything, our free VRM Viewer at /tools/vrm-viewer opens .glb files too, in the browser.

On your own website: no conversion needed. The GLB loads as-is in three.js (GLTFLoader), in Babylon.js, or in a <model-viewer> tag.

Unity or Unreal: import the GLB with a glTF importer — glTFast or UniVRM's glTF import on the Unity side, the built-in glTF importer in Unreal. The rig is a standard humanoid, so Unity's Humanoid rig type works.

No GLB saved: the creator is offline, so there is nothing left to export. The way forward is a new avatar — VTubeMe creates a photorealistic VRM from one selfie, already rigged with blendshapes.

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 paths. If you saved a GLB before the shutdown, convert it to VRM in your browser with our GLB to VRM converter — the RPM skeleton is mapped to the VRM humanoid standard and materials become MToon, no Blender needed. If you don't have the file, the 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.

If you saved a GLB before the shutdown, that gap is now closed in the browser: drop the file into our GLB to VRM converter and it maps the RPM skeleton onto the VRM humanoid bones, converts materials to MToon and carries the facial blendshapes over. The result loads in VSeeFace, Warudo and VNyan. The manual route still exists — Blender with the VRM Add-on for Blender, mapping bones and blendshapes by hand — but it costs an afternoon instead of a minute.

If you never exported a GLB, there is nothing left to convert — RPM's creator is offline. The replacement 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 Player Me only ever exported GLB, so a saved avatar needs converting. There are two ways, and the browser one is new.

In the browser (recommended): open the GLB to VRM converter, drop your .glb — or the whole ZIP if the export came with a textures folder — and it maps the skeleton onto the VRM humanoid rig, converts materials to MToon and keeps the blendshapes. You preview the result in 3D before downloading, and a rig that cannot be mapped refunds itself. Your first conversion is free.

By hand (free, slow): in Blender, install the VRM Add-on for Blender — UniVRM is the Unity package, not the Blender one — import the GLB, assign the humanoid bones, fill in the VRM metadata, build the blendshapes for blinking and lip-sync, add spring bones for hair and cloth, then export as .vrm and test it. The Unity route uses UniVRM instead. Either way, expect an afternoon of trial and error.

No GLB saved? Then there is nothing to convert, and the faster path is a fresh avatar: upload one selfie, tweak hair, outfit and accessories, and 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.