This company makes hyper-realistic 'digital humans' - and it could be the key to merging real life with virtual reality

Wood estimates that "sooner than two years" from now, each person could have access to the technology required to create and puppet their own digital body double in virtual reality, from their own home.

"It could be done today," Wood said in an interview with Business Insider. The hold up, he explained, is with the VR headset manufacturers that have yet to incorporate wearer-facing cameras into their products, a feature which real-time image capture relies on.

Once consumer-level gadgets have caught up, though, Wood says the possibilities for its uses are endless.

"We only hear of ideas," Wood said. After all, Cubic Motion just makes the tech. It's up to the rest of the world to decide how it's used.

Cubic Motion says the potential applications for "digital humans," or virtual body doubles, could be radical for the entertainment business, as well as in sales, education, medical, and other industries.

Digital bodies will allow us to interact, meet, and communicate in virtual spaces in a much more immersive and realistic way than ever before, paving the way for many traditionally face-to-face and phone interactions, like school, tech support, banking transactions, and doctors appointments, to be held in VR.

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