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Meta’s Orion holographic avatars will (eventually) be in VR too


Meta offered a glimpse of its new holographic avatars, which will allow people to talk with lifelike holograms in augmented reality.

The biggest reveal at Meta’s Connect event was its long-promised AR glasses, Orion. In the meantime, Meta offered a glimpse of its new holographic avatars, which will allow people to talk with lifelike holograms in augmented reality. “It’s an almost identical process in many ways in generating the stylized avatars [for VR], but with a different training set and a different amount of computation required,” Rabkin says.

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