Meta announced at Connect that holographic avatars are coming to Ray-Ban Display glasses and its new VR glasses; Engadget tried both in demos. The feature remains an early preview, with Ray-Ban Display early access planned for this fall and calls limited by device.
On Ray-Ban Display, users create an avatar in the Meta AI app by scanning their face from different angles and answering voice prompts; setup takes about five minutes. Meta's Muse Realtime Avatar model uses that brief training to approximate facial expressions. Avatars can join WhatsApp or Zoom calls, and Meta says calls using one will have a transparent watermark.
On the VR glasses, inward-facing cameras and sensors enable full-body avatars without the expression-training step. They show only a frontal view; Engadget observed distortion near the feet and blurring around the head in its demo. VR avatars are currently limited to glasses-to-glasses interactions.
