10. The apparatus of claim 9 further comprising an avatar rendering engine coupled with the avatar animation engine and operated by the one or more processors to draw the avatar as animated by the avatar animation engine.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a facial mesh tracker, operated by the one or more processors, to receive a plurality of image frames, detect, through the plurality of image frames, facial action movements of the face of the user and head pose gestures of the head of the user, and output the plurality of facial motion parameters to depict facial action movements detected, and the plurality of head gestures parameters to depict head pose gestures detected, all in real time; wherein detection of facial action movements and head pose gestures includes detection of inter-frame differences for a mouth and an eye on the face, and the head, based on pixel sampling of the image frames.