Mixed reality videos — where a video camera and a green screen are used to show what a person using VR is experiencing — aren’t particularly new. But a recent collaboration between Google’s Daydream and Research teams has come up with a new spin on mixed reality by making the VR headsets transparent so you can actually “see” the user’s face.

Of course, Google hasn’t actually invented a way to magically X-ray through a VR headset. Rather, using a combination of a 3D scanned model of a person’s face, along with an HTC Vive headset modified with eye tracking technology allows for a digital recreation of the person’s face to be substituted in place. To prevent a disconcerting uncanny valley effect, a translucent version of the headset is…

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