Timmu Tõke studied in Estonia and spent over a decade obsessed with a single problem: how digital humans represent themselves in virtual 3D worlds. In 2014, Tõke founded Wolf3D in Tallinn, building proprietary hardware booths that captured 3D photogrammetric scans of human faces.
Recognizing that physical scanning hardware was unscalable, Tõke pivoted to deep learning algorithms capable of synthesizing a hyper-accurate, stylized 3D avatar from a single 2D smartphone selfie. In 2020, Tõke launched Ready Player Me—a cross-platform avatar passport system for the open metaverse.
Game developers in Unity and Unreal Engine can integrate Ready Player Me with a few lines of code, giving players consistent digital identities across thousands of independent games. In 2022, Tõke raised a $56 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Games), cementing Estonia's role as a digital identity leader across physical and virtual realities.
