Selfie Expression

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Selfie Expression is a feature that allows users to utilize a camera for upper-body tracking on an avatar. This feature is available to all users on mobile Android, and desktop mode.

Overview

Selfie Expression can track a user's facial expressions, head, and eye movement; in addition to arms, hands, and finger tracking on desktop. This system uses your camera, built-in visemes, allowing it to work with nearly all avatars that are configured with eye-look and visemes. Selfie Expression for mobile Android, was introduced on the 2024.4.2 release, on December 5, 2024. Selfie Expression on desktop, was introduced on the 2025.1.3 release, on March 26, 2025.

How to enable Selfie Expression

Selfie Expression requires the use of a camera and can be enabled in the Main Menu Settings, under Tracking & IK. Click "Enable Selfie Expression" to turn it on.

Requirements

PC

• Any webcam with support for a 4:3 ratio.
  • Most built-in laptop cameras are supported.

Android

• Enable the user's front camera on their smartdevice
  • App permissions for "Camera" must be allowed first, before using the feature

Selfie Expression settings

Setting	Tooltip	Variables
Enable Selfie Expression	Selfie Expression uses your camera to animate your avatar! No one will see your real face. Image data is processed locally on your device, only used for animation, and never saved.	Toggle
Auto-Adjust Selfie Expression Quality	Automatically adjust Selfie Expression quality depending on current frame rate	Toggle
Selfie Expression Quality Level	Change Selfie Expression Quality level Off - Selfie Expression is disabled until frame rate improves Performance - Selfie Expression disables hand tracking and uses minimum camera resolution and framerate Balanced - Selfie Expression uses camera with medium resolution and framerate Best/High Quality: Quality - Selfie Expression uses camera with highest resolution and framerate	Off, Performance, Balanced, High Quality, Best Quality
Selfie Expression Also Moves Hands	While Selfie Expression is enabled, and the Quality Setting is set to 'Balanced' or above, allow moving hands via your webcam.	Toggle
Auto Recentering Speed	Adjusts how quickly your avatar will automatically recenter rotation (to compensate for camera offset)	0-100, Recenter, Reset
Current Webcam Device	Change your current webcam device. Make sure your webcam is not being used by other software	Change Webcam Device

Selfie Expression Quality Level

The following table, compares the camera resolution and frame rate, for the various "Selfie Expression Quality Level" settings, for Performance, Balanced, High Quality, and Best Quality settings:

Quality level	Resolution	Frames
Performance	177x144px	5
Balanced	320x240px	15
High Quality	640x480px	20
Best Quality	800x600px	30

Troubleshooting

• If an avatar's eyes are not tracking, it could likely be the 'eye-look' settings have not been properly set-up for the avatar in the VRChat SDK.
• On desktop, if hand tracking is not working, you may either need to enable it using the Selfie Expression Also Moves Hands setting, and turn the camera quality setting to Balanced, High Quality, or Best Quality.
• If your microphone's quality is unusual, your microphone may accidentally be set to your webcam. You can change your microphone's source in the Audio tab in the Quick Menu.

Privacy and performance

All camera data is processed locally, and image or tracking data is never sent to other users, or to VRChat's servers. Due to using camera resources, it may be heavy on some systems and devices. You can reduce lag from this feature, by adjusting the quality of Selfie Expression to Balanced, or Performance modes for a better result.

Trivia

• Selfie Expression once required VRC+ to be used on desktop, but was made free, with build 1696 on September 5, 2025.

See also

• Finger Tracking
• Face Tracking