Friendly avatars, where they help most.
Invirtua brings interactive avatar technology into the contexts where it serves people. Today, that means Humbrella.
Invirtua was founded on a question.
At a corporate event, a neuroscientist asked whether a friendly, interactive avatar — the kind animators bring to life in real time, in service of a story — could help children on the autism spectrum. The answer turned out to be yes, with the right people in the room. Invirtua Inc. was incorporated in Nevada in April 2015 to find out.
What followed was years of work alongside families, therapists, and clinicians: hardware installations, software licensed from CHOPS Live Animation, and Invirtua’s own training program for the people who would actually run the sessions. That methodology became Avatar Adventures — live storytelling, slide shows, video, and performance, organized around the simple premise that a positive relationship with a friendly avatar can help a child engage in ways that are otherwise hard to reach.
The autism work taught Invirtua something durable: a well-applied avatar, met at the right moment, can help a person meet themselves. That lesson now finds its next form in Humbrella.
Humbrella
Based on author Byron Katie's 'The Work'
Humbrella is a private online shelter for adults working through stuck thinking, anxiety, and the weight of unprocessed regret. Built on Byron Katie’s method “The Work,” with structured courses, Emotional Weather tools, a private community, and an AI companion named Gaia — trained on the same principles that power the rest of the platform.
Humbrella ships with two interactive avatars: a Mimic avatar for in-app guidance and a HeyGen avatar for video lessons. The technology is doing what it has always done at Invirtua — helping a real person, in a real moment, find a clearer thought.
“I was in my fifties when I first read Byron Katie. I wished I’d found her work twenty years earlier. Humbrella exists because I suspect a lot of people feel that way.”
HOW IT WORKS
The job in front of me is the job.
Whatever the work is — a video repair, an avatar install, a streaming setup, a session on Byron Katie’s Work, a Humbrella subscriber finding their footing — it gets the same attention. The size of the job doesn’t change the standard.
Positive outcomes that last.
A short-term fix is rarely a real fix. The aim is results that hold up — and I don’t mind the extra mile to get there.
Grateful, and aware of it.
I’m lucky to be doing this work, with people I’m glad to know. That awareness shapes how I show up.
Honest before polished.
A clear answer is worth more than a smooth one. People know the difference.
A Brief History
April 2015 — Invirtua Inc. incorporated in Nevada to bring interactive avatar technology into clinical settings for children on the autism spectrum.
May 2021 — Avatar Adventures launches as Invirtua’s training methodology and program offering.
2026 — Humbrella opens to subscribers.
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