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Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the... by mettamage on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:59AM (#29139936)
You don't need to shrink down, you might be able to scan faces in vr glasses and put them in the vr world
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Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the... by runnerup on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:10AM (#29140043)
The HP Omnicept, based on the Reverb G2, adds a camera that points at the lower half of the face and a Tobii eye tracker looking at the eyes.

You could do a LOT of avatar face reconstruction with that.

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Re:Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the... by TigeriusKirk on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:17AM (#29140121)
Meta is of course working on exactly this.
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