Gemini 3D Avatar is shaping up to be Google's next big push into hyper-personalised AI. The feature, still hidden in development, is designed to let people generate realistic images of themselves on demand without repeatedly uploading new selfies.
References to a Gemini 3D Avatar feature have been spotted inside version 17.11.54 of the Google app for Android during an APK teardown, suggesting Google is actively wiring the tool into its wider AI ecosystem. The code is not yet live for any users and appears to require a server-side switch, which means public testing has not begun.
According to strings found in the app, users will be able to "add yourself to any frame you create by typing @me" in a prompt, hinting at a direct link between a stored avatar profile and Google's Nano Banana image generation technology. Nano Banana is the name Google uses for Gemini's native image tools, capable of generating high-resolution, highly consistent visuals from text and images.
Gemini 3D Avatar appears to build on Google's existing Android XR "Likeness" avatars, which were introduced in late 2025 as photorealistic stand-ins for video calls on mixed-reality headsets. Likeness allows users to scan their face with a compatible smartphone and then appear in meetings as a lifelike digital version of themselves rather than via a standard webcam feed.
While Likeness focuses on real-time presence in apps such as Google Meet and Zoom, Gemini 3D Avatar seems aimed at creative output: still images, and potentially videos in future, generated around a persistent digital likeness. That could tie into Veo-based video models later, although there is no indication yet that AI video support is part of the initial release.
If Gemini 3D Avatar rolls out as described, users might no longer need to upload new photos every time they want an AI-generated portrait or social image; instead, saved avatar data could be dropped into any Nano Banana frame with a simple prompt. In practical terms, that could speed up content creation for everything from profile pictures to marketing visuals, while raising fresh questions about consent, cloning and how closely a "digital you" should resemble the real one.
For now, Gemini 3D Avatar remains a work-in-progress feature buried in the Google app's code, with no release timeline and early indications that it may debut on desktop before expanding more widely. But taken together with Likeness on Android XR and Nano Banana in the Gemini API, it points clearly to Google's ambition: a future where your AI assistant does not just know you, it can convincingly look like you as well.