Animated Avatar with Face Tracking
Animated Avatar with Face Tracking
What we love about paper Magic the most is the priceless reactions we get from our friends (and sometimes foes). And can actually be an important game element, to read your oppenent's face or get fooled by it. Poker face. MTG Arena cannot compete with that experience. The reactions you can give, like "Hello", "Good Game" etc. is very limited...
It seems weird to me that we can have animated pets and sometimes even cards. But a player's avatar is just a boring picture.
While allowing to have a webcam feed directly displayed as an avatar would probably result in moderation headaches, maybe a good compromise could be to have an animated avatar, where its movement and mimic is synced to a webcam's feed.
On Twitch we can already see various streamers who have beautiful, virtual avatars, synced to the streamer's own mimic and head movements. It would be great to have something similar in MTGA natively.
Imagine how it'd feel to see your own grin unfold on a digitial Vivien, Chandra or Nicol Bolas after playing a powerful spell?
(And I could imagine that many people would be willing to buy such an animated, face-tracking avatar of their favourite planeswalker.)