Thanks for highlighting this issue Jeffrey! The past few years have seen game developers working towards introducing more diversity. But as you've pointed out a lot more needs to be done.

The tech industry has always publicly championed collaboration. High time they put that into practice. The easiest would be to do so with barbers and stylists to include more hairstyles.

The technology to add those hairstyles exists easily. With lighting though the challenge is significantly harder. Even today, that's one of the biggest challenges for game developers: better lighting.

Several factors affect make it challenging. Computing power is among the common ones. But there's more subtle ones like how cameras were originally designed to capture white skin tones. It was only after chocolate and wood furniture makers asked that camera manufacturers began working towards better capturing darker skin tones.

New technology is working towards better capturing darker skin tones. But as you've pointed our there's an unconscious bias when people of color aren't in the room. I'm hoping that doesn't hinder testing and mislead teams genuinely working towards increasing diversity.