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.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Friday September 15 2017, @06:16PM
I watched a demo, a decade ago, of a program which could easily change the facial features of an actress moving around in a typical-looking video.
Guy clicked a few buttons, and in five minutes she went from white to asian.
Everything can be doctored. Doing it in real-time has been possible in HD for a while. Doing it at decent quality in real-time HD with a hand-held battery-powered device is a sign humans aren't completely worthless (though wasteful).