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

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: 3, Insightful) by Scrutinizer on Friday September 15 2017, @02:03PM

    by Scrutinizer (6534) on Friday September 15 2017, @02:03PM (#568435)

    Not so much the poo, but the Face2Face technology. Like any technology, it can be used for good or ill, and it doesn't take much imagination to think of some ills. (You could just watch the 1987 film The Running Man [imdb.com] for a fictional use of this technology, in which a good cop is framed in place of murderous cops.)

    Trying to stop the advance of technology is largely futile, and also welcomes in questionable company [arstechnica.com]. Alternatively, spreading knowledge of technology far and wide can help limit the impact of nefarious use, in this case either through heightened awareness that such high-quality manipulation of video is possible, or perhaps by encouraging a shift towards encoding digital media with cryptographic fingerprints to hamper and reveal any editing shennanigans made possible by Face2Face or other useful but potentially deceptive media editing tech.

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