Avatar videos and images play an important role in making your AI companions feel present. Words carry the conversation, but visuals quickly bring your attention to the character behind the chat.
With Aicrest, you can choose videos and images from your Photos library and display them as looping avatar media in the chat background. These visuals stay prominent while the app is warming up and while you wait for responses, giving the experience a more immersive and personal feel.
Aicrest does not currently generate avatar videos or images inside the app, unlike some cloud-based AI companion services. One reason is practical: creating high-quality images and videos still requires significant compute resources, especially when aiming for results comparable to cloud generation services.
But compute is not the only reason. Even as generative image and video technology improves, people are very good at noticing small unnatural details. Once something feels slightly off, the whole visual can become distracting. Personal taste also varies widely, shaped by each person’s memories, preferences, and imagination. For an AI companion, the “right” visual is deeply personal.
That is why Aicrest focuses on giving you control over the avatar videos and images you already love. Instead of filling the screen with only chat history, Aicrest presents your chosen media prominently in the main chat view, using looping videos and images to make the experience feel more expressive, dynamic, and modern.
This is an intentional design choice: your companion should look and feel the way you want, while the conversation remains clean, immersive, and emotionally engaging.