Possible Reality's Intract tool put Dean Takahashi's face onto a game avatar.
Possible Reality's Intract tool put Dean Takahashi's face onto a game avatar.
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Possible Reality puts your face on a video game character

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Possible Reality can take a 2D picture of your face and turn it into a 3D avatar inside a video game or virtual world, helping people to identify with such characters in a much more personal way.

Lots of companies have tried to do this before, with varying degrees of success. But Possible Reality believes its Intract technology is ideally suited to bringing the idea to life.

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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.