Meta's New Holographic Avatars Are Here And They're Surprisingly Real
They're a notable improvement over the company's earlier attempts at digital likeness.
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I'm almost embarrassed to admit that the first time I saw one of Meta's new holographic avatars today, during a WhatsApp call with a Meta rep I had just met a few minutes before, I didn't immediately clock that I was speaking to an avatar. That's how far the company's avatar technology has come in the last couple years.
Meta announced at Connect that it's bringing its holographic avatars to its new VR glasses and to the Meta Ray-Ban Display frames. I got the chance to experience both ahead of the keynote and was surprised at how far the tech has come since the first time I experienced it on Meta's Orion prototype.
Setting up an avatar is a bit different depending on which device you're using. With the display-enabled glasses, you create an avatar in...
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