Topic

Photorealistic Avatars

Reconstructed likenesses of real people driven by face and body tracking, used in video calls and shared virtual spaces instead of stylised characters.

Current clusters

product1 publisher

Meta's avatar passed for live video in a WhatsApp call after a five-minute phone setup

Engadget's reviewer spent part of a WhatsApp call with one of Meta's new holographic avatars before working out it was not a live person. Early access opens this fall on the VR glasses and the Ray-Ban Display frames.

Publishers:engadget.com

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption15
Hype gap+14
Incentives70
Confidence48

product1 publisher

Meta trades 40 degrees of horizontal view for a 100-gram VR visor

The $1,300 Meta VR Glasses run Quest 3's operating system on a tethered puck, so the existing library and the existing controllers carry over to a headset that shows roughly 44% of the Quest 3 viewing rectangle.

Publishers:uploadvr.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption8
Hype gap+18
Incentives65
Confidence52