Your Clothes Into The Metaverse – Facebook Is Working On New System

Meta (Facebook) quite often comments on its plans for the Metaverse, a virtual world. In VRChat games, you can create custom avatars and thus customize your virtual self to your liking. However, this time Meta wants to go one step further. According to the patent published at the end of July, a system should be created that will allow users to upload their own clothes to the Metaverse.

The user will have to take a lot of photos from which data will be collected about the color, shape and general appearance of what he is wearing. The information will then be transformed into a three-dimensional mesh based on clothing and body shape.

“In computer graphics, a grid forms the basic structure of a model, giving it its overall shape. It can then be refined by introducing specific texture maps, just like normal maps. The patent mentions that the purpose of this is to create an ‘edge between skin and clothing’, which may suggest that the clothing could even respond to the wearer’s movements.”

This is quite an interesting  project but it remains to be seen whether it will even appear and how it will potentially work. Tons of programs and games struggle to implement realistic 3D face scans from images or videos, although this is starting to change over time. The idea of ​​uploading the actual clothes you have on in real life might appeal to users who are very individual and don’t want to look like others.

Metaverse is often promoted as way of long-distance communication with colleagues and the possibility of socializing with friends and family who are far away. Recreating your actual appearance in such cases would probably be welcome by many people.