Facebook animates photo-realistic avatars to mimic VR users’ faces – TechCrunch

Facebook wants you to look and move like you in VR, even if you’ve got a headset strapped to your face in the real world. That’s why it’s building a new technology that uses a photo to map someone’s face into VR, and sensors to detect facial expressions and movements to animate that avatar so it looks like you without an Oculus on your head. CTO Mike Schroepfer previewed the technology during