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Google made the most realistic avatars yet, but millions of Android users can't even use it for one weird reason

Google is finally starting to roll out its highly anticipated photorealistic avatars, dubbed “Likeness,” for compatible Android XR headsets, but millions of users won’t even be able to create one due to a strange phone requirement, as per Road to VR. This is Google’s answer to Apple’s Personas, and the idea is the same: the system scans your face to create a super realistic representation, then uses the headset’s cameras to animate that scan as …
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