Meta’s Zuckerberg reveals new photorealistic avatars for metaverse
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave his first interview in the metaverse using high-quality Codec Avatars. Meta’s virtual reality (VR) appears to be evolving rapidly as in a recent interview with Lex Fridman, a computer scientist and podcaster, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, demonstrated photorealistic possibilities of Codec Avatars, a research project which Meta has been developing since 2019. During the interview, Friedman and Zuckerberg were using Meta Quest Pro VR headsets to communicate with each other in a virtual space, where they both had photorealistic 3D avatar s of themselves. Codec Avatars is powered by neural networks, which generate a 3D model, using over 170 cameras. Zuckerberg is conducting an interview in the metaverse with a 3D avatar | Source: YouTube This means that a user still needs to undergo the digitization process also known as photogrammetry, where information about physical objects captured through the process of recording, measuring and interpre...