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Epic Games has released a new app for iOS that can be used to capture and stream high-quality facial animations in real-time from your iPhone directly onto characters in Unreal Engine.

Jun 04, 2025 12:24:00 Part of 'MetaHuman', a game development tool that allows you to create and move ultra-realistic 3DCG characters for free, is integrated into Unreal Engine 5.6 ...

Using the iPhone's front-facing camera and TrueDepth sensors, Live Link Face can stream an actor's facial animations directly into Unreal in real-time.

The new app, by Epic Games, is designed to let developers record facial expressions from their iPhone and map them directly onto characters in Unreal Engine in real-time.

It’ll be interesting to see what else this engine upgrade unlocks, particularly whether Riot will improve character models and animations in the future.

Epic Games is releasing Unreal Engine 5.1 today as an update to the game engine that it hopes will be used to build the metaverse.