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A Californian company has created software that uses photos to create 3D models of people for virtual environments. The avatars are the creation of Oben, a Pasadena startup firm that has been working since 2014 to create virtual identities for use online. The avatars are the creation of Oben, a Pasadena startup firm that has been working since 2014 to create virtual identities for use online. Creating an avatar (pictured) takes around eight hours to generate a head and shoulders replication from a photo and between two and twenty minutes of audio recordings.