{"id":209912,"date":"2026-02-04T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T13:45:11","slug":"google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Tests Gemini 3D Avatars for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/\">Google Tests Gemini 3D Avatars for Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/\">https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-04 08:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.findarticles.com\">www.findarticles.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google appears to be preparing a new Gemini-powered feature that creates lifelike 3D avatars from a simple selfie video, hinting at a future where you can join a call without ever turning on your camera. Strings discovered in the latest Google app beta for Android reference a tool called \u201cCharacters,\u201d a system that mirrors Apple\u2019s Vision Pro Personas and Samsung\u2019s Galaxy XR \u201cLikeness\u201d avatars.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-the-beta-hints-reveal-about-gemini-characters\" class=\"rb-heading-index-0 wp-block-heading\">What the beta hints reveal about Gemini Characters<\/h2>\n<p>In version 17.4.66 beta of the Google app, a Characters option surfaces in the Gemini launcher\u2019s overflow menu. Tapping it brings up a flow to \u201crecord your likeness,\u201d followed by a prompt to capture a short selfie video that the software uses to generate a 3D representation. Early testers report options to edit or delete previously recorded avatars, though the capture flow isn\u2019t fully enabled yet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1344\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gemini_characters_edited_1770210279.png\" alt=\"A professionally enhanced image with a 16:9 aspect ratio, featuring a dark blue background with a subtle gradient. In the center, a white rectangular box contains information about the Gemini zodiac sign, including its dates, characteristics, likes, dislikes, lucky day, lucky number, lucky color, element, favorite flower, and ruling planet. The WOODGEEK logo is at the bottom of the white box.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>One code string \u2014 \u201cassistant_ui_account_wasabi_button\u201d labeled as \u201cCharacters\u201d \u2014 suggests this is meant to live alongside Gemini\u2019s core UI. Based on placement and language, the feature looks intended for use in video calls or other live interactions, acting as a real-time stand-in when you\u2019d rather not appear on camera.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"how-gemini-might-build-avatars-without-headset-sensors\" class=\"rb-heading-index-1 wp-block-heading\">How Gemini Might Build Avatars Without Headset Sensors<\/h2>\n<p>Apple\u2019s Personas and Samsung\u2019s Likeness leverage sophisticated sensors on headsets to capture depth and facial motion. Phones don\u2019t have that same sensor array, so Gemini likely leans on AI reconstruction: estimating 3D geometry from 2D video using techniques such as monocular depth estimation, neural radiance fields, or Gaussian splatting, then driving a rigged face model with blendshape parameters.<\/p>\n<p>Google has the building blocks. MediaPipe Face Mesh already tracks hundreds of facial landmarks from a standard camera. Google Research has published extensively on text-to-3D and view synthesis. Marrying those with Gemini\u2019s multimodal capabilities could yield a pipeline that learns your appearance from a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Tests Gemini 3D Avatars for Android https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/google-tests-gemini-3d-avatars-for-android\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-04 08:06:00 Source Domain: www.findarticles.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gemini_characters_edited_1770210279.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-209912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209914,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209912\/revisions\/209914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}