This isn’t considered verification in the UK from what I can tell. Companies are now implementing AI face scans, ID checks and credit card verification to comply with the UK law. I’m not a lawyer or even British, but it wouldn’t make sense to me that companies would spend money to turn away their UK customers otherwise.
Even if 3D images are required, surely there are 3D deepfake faces people can wear. But anyway, we’re being distracted by the part of this law that stops kids going online. The quiet part is the part that gets every adult to show their real face to some website. They need deepfake faces just as much if not more so.
The video game trick doesn’t work everywhere. I don’t know about deepfakes and such, both how easily available they are and how good they are at tricking the age verification.