Stony Brook University researchers have found a way to create your dynamic 3D avatar using video clippings from your phone.

Have you ever wished you had a 3D avatar to talk to your friends in a fantasy world? Or that you could teach your kid to interact with elephants in virtual reality? Or that you had a digital double starring in your reels?

Bringing reality to fantastic worlds like The San-Ti’s planet from the novel, The Three-Body Problem, seems like a far cry. But we’re closer to creating these realities than we were only less than two decades ago, when Google introduced Street View in its Maps.