Mark Zuckerberg just previewed Meta's new VR avatars – and they don't suck

• Mark Zuckerberg showed off Meta's new photorealistic VR avatars in his first "Metaverse interview."
• He said Meta plans to integrate them into its apps, but that the technology isn't quite ready yet.
• Zuckerberg was mocked on social media last year for posting a selfie of his cartoonish VR avatar. 

Mark Zuckerberg has demoed Meta's brand new photorealistic avatars, and they are scarily lifelike.

In a "Metaverse interview" on the Lex Fridman podcast, Zuckerberg showed off Meta's new Codec virtual reality avatars that use scanning technology to build 3D models of the user's face.