New AR app will let you model a virtual companion on anyone you want

The Next Web
By Thomas MacaulayJun 1, 2020, 1:05 pm65 pts
A smartphone app called Hybri is adding an unsettling touch of reality to VR, by scanning photos of real people onto an avatar’s face. The avatars draw memories of the holographic girlfriend in Blade Runner 2049, but trapped inside a smartphone screen instead of an apartment. Hybri could also launch much…

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