https://www.cnet.com/news/we-tried-out-apples-memoji-on-ios-12-its-already-pretty-great-compared-to-nintendo/ > Everyone's making avatars now: Nintendo started it with its Mii in 2006, on the wildly popular Wii console. Microsoft quickly "borrowed" that idea for Xbox Avatars. Bitmoji -- first an independent company, later purchased by Snap -- popularized the personalized emojis on mobile devices. And Apple's Animoji, Samsung's AR Emoji and Facebook's Oculus VR avatars all followed.  > In that light, Apple's new Memoji are hardly surprising. But what they are is pretty fun.