Pulse Mobile's 3D Mobile Avatars

Pulse Mobile, a San Francisco company that lets you send mobile messages with an animated avatar, has raised $7 million in a second round of financing according to PEHub.

Since last December, Cingular users can use Pulse Mobile’s “Veepers” in order to create an animated avatar and send it to friend's mobile phone or email address. Users can upload a portrait photo or pick an image from the gallery. Then, the image turns into an image with 3D animated qualities. Users can direct their avatar to nod, shake or wink and choose what kind of accent the avatar speaks the message when it is delivered to friends. Finally, friends will receive a fully animated personality delivering the chosen message with voice by MMS. To get a sense of how Veepers works click here

Little by little, we see more players populating the mobile avatars arena. The fact that investors believe in the avatars market and are putting the $$$ in it - is very good news for the entire world of avatars! GO avatars!