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Meta researchers built a "large reconstruction model (LRM)" that can generate an animatable photorealistic avatar head in minutes from just four selfies.

Here's Meta's new 'Audio To Expression' Quest SDK feature in action, compared to the old Oculus Lipsync.

메타가 메타버스에서 아바타의 동작을 제어할 수 있는 새로운 인공지능(AI) 모델을 선보였다.메타는 13일(현지시간) 공식 블로그를 통해 사용자 설명에 따라 아바타의 동작을 생성하고 렌더링할 수 있는 AI 모델 '모티보(Motivo)'를 공개했다.모티보는 가상현실(VR) 애플리케이션에 활용되는 3D 아바타를 애니메이션화하는 데 사용될 수 있다. 이 모델은 사용자가 입력한 설명을 기반으로 아바타의 움직임을 생성하며, 아바타의 포즈 변경도 가능하다. 예를 들어, 서 있는 아바타를 앉히거나 앉아 있는 아바타를 일으키는 명령을 수행할 수 있

Meshes are one of the most important and widely used representations of 3D assets. They are the default standard in the film, design, and gaming industries and they are natively supported by virtually…

Ready Player Me has launched its new consumer avatar platform with the release of ‘PlayerZero’ | XR News from Auganix.org

Play for Dream showcased its headset's low latency passthrough by having a racing driver weave between cones while wearing it.

The Meta Avatars graphics overhaul is now live in Horizon Worlds, Home, Workrooms, and the SDK for third-party apps.

We conducted a remote communication experiment using Looking Glass Go and an iPhone. We were able to have a conversation while displaying the other person…

AstroBeam is aiming to build better VR characters using LLMs.

Meta's XR Audio SDK now has Acoustic Ray Tracing, realistically simulating how sound propagates through the geometry of the virtual world to your ear.

Recent job postings suggest that Meta's photorealistic codec avatars are on their way out of the lab and into products.

The upcoming Meta Avatars graphics overhaul is being tested internally by Meta employees.

Google announced that Blocks, the 3D asset creation tool released for VR in 2017, is following in the footsteps of Tilt Brush by going open source. Google announced the news in a blogpost, noting that development of Open Blocks is following the example put forth by Open Brush, a version of Google’s Tilt Brush XR creation tool which was open sourced in 2021. […]

The research team at Temporal has demonstrated their recent progress in making Gaussian Splatting a viable technology for real-time volumetric video.

Apple today released ‘Spatial Personas’ in public beta on Vision Pro. The newly upgraded avatar system can now bring people right into your room. We got an early look. Much has been said about Apple’s Persona avatar system for Vision Pro. Whether you find them uncanney or passable, one thing is certain: it’s the most […]

The beta version of the next quest update apparently improves the quality of the passthrough, according to testers.

Meta's newer Codec Avatars are rendered on workstations, but an older version is already running on standalone headsets.

XR Today reports on the latest extended reality news from around the globe, including virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

Apple was recently granted a patent for ‘EyeSight’, the external display on Vision Pro which shows the wearer’s eyes. The patent was filed way back in 2017 and envisioned the feature being used to show stylized eyes like those of anime and furry characters. EyeSight is perhaps the most unique bit of hardware on Vision […]

Code and dataset for photorealistic Codec Avatars driven from audio - GitHub - facebookresearch/audio2photoreal: Code and dataset for photorealistic Codec Avatars driven from audio

The Meta Avatars SDK finally includes legs. Third-party developers that use it can now add legs to the avatars in their apps.