WhatsApp will allow you to use avatars to make video calls on Android phones, where it has begun to implement this tool, which follows users’ facial movements and expressions in real time.

Since announcing its interest in the development of the metaverse, the technology company Meta has been introducing the possibility of using three-dimensional (3D) avatars in some of its applications, such as Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.

Last summer, Meta introduced the ability to make video calls using avatars in these last two social networks, both in its application for iOS and in its version for Android mobiles.

This functionality has now begun to be deployed in WhatsApp, through the Google Play Beta Program, with version 2.23.19.14, according to WaBetaInfo.

With this feature, the company offers users to protect their privacy during video calls, since instead of their image it proposes an avatar that follows facial movements and expressions in real time.

In this new tab, currently available to beta testers of the application, the end-to-end encryption system for WhatsApp calls is maintained and a button is introduced to return to the normal video at any time.

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Meta’s avatars already show legs, the element that was missing in the virtual versions of users and that the technology company promised to incorporate so that they would be visible to others.

Meta’s avatars on the Horizon virtual platforms display representations of the users up to their waists, giving the effect that they are floating rather than standing on two legs above the ground.

This is due, as the company explained on several occasions, to the lack of naturalness between the movement of the real legs and the virtual ones, something that, it understands, can be disconcerting for the users themselves.

However, in September of last year they confirmed that they would incorporate the legs into the avatars, although these would only be visible to other users and not to the person represented in the avatar. And the time to see the rest of the whole body has arrived with a beta.

The first-person view from an avatar still shows a virtual body that ends at the waist, but when stopping in the digital world before a mirror or seeing other avatars, the experience changes because then you can see the legs and their movement, as collected by media such as TechCrunch and UploadVR.

The legs can be found in Horizon Home, as in the v57 update available on Quest’s Public Test Channel.

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