Loom.ai can created 3D avatars from a single photo.
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Loom.ai can automatically create a 3D avatar of your face from a single selfie

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Loom.ai has raised $1.35 million in seed funding, and it has also unveiled its platform for automatically creating 3D avatars of your face from a single selfie.

San Francisco-based Loom.ai has its roots in founders who worked on visual effects for DreamWorks and LucasFilm. You’ll eventually be able to use those avatars on social networks, virtual reality content, and games. The startup is an example of the democratization of technology, through a tool that enables everyone to create their own expressive 3D avatar. The tech uses artificial intelligence to guess at what it cannot see in trying to extract a 3D image from a 2D image.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.