Google XR Open-Sources GNM Parametric Human Models, Community Builds Interactive Visualizer

leland_mcinnes · x · 2026-08-10

The Google XR team recently open-sourced GNM, their ecosystem of parametric human models and perception stacks, starting with the release of GNM Head.

The developer community quickly adopted the models for experimentation. A developer extracted the identity and expression components from GNM, applied UMAP for dimensionality reduction, and built an interactive visualization to reconstruct and explore these features directly in the browser.

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