>>62384504There are a few key innovators who brought key disciplines into vtubing.
>Sonico Mo-cap.>Kizuna Ai idol music aspect.The one who brought gaming and "facecaming" was actually a western bloke called theonemanny. He had beta access to facerig and started proto-vtub foing in 2015 and blew up to 5view concurrent for a few weeks after being featured on various CS:GO boards. He invented vtubing as we know it today, the sit in front of cam have it track your face to be digitalized in an avatar.
a few other proto-vtubing facts:
Shurelia, gamedesigner at Riotgames did PNGtubing as far back as season 2 in LoL. She would use various keyframes to slot into videos giving the illusion of onscreen appearance. She is friends with Lilypichu who was featured in videos together with the same technique. They reconnected after Shurelia re-incarnated as Leaflit. I am not sure but I think she was vtubing as shurelia and played fortnite? Archives are hard to come by, citation needed. She privated or deleted most of the archives.
The timeline for proto-vtubing would be:
>2010 Sonico>2011 Ami Yamato, Shurelia (and Lilypichu) [estimated date, citation needed, current claims by Shurelia/Leaflit]>2015 Theonemannyafter that the real vtubers started with 2016's debut of Kizuna Ai.
Sora, the first Hololive/Cover vtuber started in 2017 and the rest is well documented history.