Muse Realtime Avatar gives Meta's Muse agent a face you can video chat with. Voice and video come from one speech stream, so lips, expressions, gestures and posture move with every word, and the reply starts in about 870 ms. Unlike talking-head avatars that only animate a face, it moves hands and full body too, and the character stays consistent from turn to turn. In Meta's live-call tests, raters preferred it 78% of the time over Runway Characters and 88% over HeyGen LiveAvatar.
Meta just gave its Muse agent an actual face. You talk, it talks back on video, and the eyebrows, hands and posture move with what it's saying. Way past the "mouth flapping on a still photo" stage 🌚
The nerdy bit I loved: the big teacher model needed 120 passes for every video chunk. The live one needs 2. That's how they get the reply started in under a second.
Heads up, it's rolling out in the Muse app in the US for 18+, so some of you will get it before others. Europe, we need to wait a bit as ususally.
“Turn voice chats with Muse into live video calls”
Muse Realtime Avatar launched on Product Hunt on November 7th, 2026 and earned 81 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Muse Realtime Avatar gives Meta's Muse agent a face you can video chat with. Voice and video come from one speech stream, so lips, expressions, gestures and posture move with every word, and the reply starts in about 870 ms. Unlike talking-head avatars that only animate a face, it moves hands and full body too, and the character stays consistent from turn to turn. In Meta's live-call tests, raters preferred it 78% of the time over Runway Characters and 88% over HeyGen LiveAvatar.
On the analytics side, Muse Realtime Avatar competes within Artificial Intelligence, Bots and Video — topics that collectively have 596.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Muse Realtime Avatar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Muse Realtime Avatar?
Muse Realtime Avatar was hunted by Kate Ramakaieva. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Kate Ramakaieva
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Meta just gave its Muse agent an actual face. You talk, it talks back on video, and the eyebrows, hands and posture move with what it's saying. Way past the "mouth flapping on a still photo" stage 🌚
The nerdy bit I loved: the big teacher model needed 120 passes for every video chunk. The live one needs 2. That's how they get the reply started in under a second.
Heads up, it's rolling out in the Muse app in the US for 18+, so some of you will get it before others. Europe, we need to wait a bit as ususally.
Check out more and see it in action here https://research.meta.ai/blog/bringing-your-muse-to-life