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Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face

posted by cmn32480 on Friday September 15 2017, @09:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-be-a-shithead-too dept.

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The $999 iPhone X costs more than many laptops. Among the changes in store is the ability to project face movements onto emoji.

Apple's new iPhone X will allow users to do something we never dared dream would be possible with a handheld device.

It lets you take control of the poo emoji with your own face.

That's right, the animated pile of excrement, which is among the most popular methods of communication for millennials, can be controlled with the tech giant's new Face ID feature.

The fine article has an example of animoji demonstrated at an Apple conference.

Check YouTube for an example of the Face2Face algorithm — published on Mar 17, 2016 — where real-time face movement is projected onto George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by TheRaven on Friday September 15 2017, @11:51AM (1 child)

    by TheRaven (270) on Friday September 15 2017, @11:51AM (#568388) Journal
    Matrox had a product about 10-15 years ago that used something like the Face2Face algorithm for video conferencing over a MODEM. The camera would track your face movements and then it would distort an image of your face at the remote end to mirror your movements. The actions were a much lower-bandwidth stream than the images, so you could do full videoconferencing over a low-bandwidth link. I wonder if FaceTime is going to get similar support.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @07:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 16 2017, @07:24AM (#568869)

    Sounds like MIDI audio or ascii art video. Both great innovations if you ask me but unfortunately ignored by technical development and increased wealth.