In this episode of SENSELESS Conversations we talk to Anca Salagean, who is a researcher in the CREATE and CAMERA labs at the University of Bath where she studies the effects of embodying personalised and photorealistic avatars in virtual reality. She discusses the process of creating these avatars as well as their current and future applications and the interesting ethical issues associated with creating “virtual twins”.

Recorded 9th October 2023. Hosted by Mike Richardson and Naomi Heffer. Music credit: Xythe via freesound.org, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

Interested in learning more about photorealistic avatars? Check out Anca’s recent open access publication. You can also watch Mark Zuckerberg and Lex Fridman interacting as photorealistic avatars in the metaverse here.

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