My sense is that by the end of this decade, pattern - recognition tasks
like facial tracking will become commonplace.
It sports an exciting new design, a much larger and sharper OLED screen, a superior dual - camera, and all - new
facial tracking features that we've never seen before, all in a package that isn't much bigger than the iPhone 8.
It says the Animoji will
use facial tracking and the user's voice to create expressive animated messages.
They also introduced a fun, new feature in Messages to go along with the
new facial tracking features — Animojis.
Afterwards, the company also quietly pushed an update for GarageBand for iOS that adds support
for facial tracking via the TrueDepth camera on iPhone X...
Sony have taken this one step further by implementing real -
time facial tracking that translates head, mouth and eye movements into a cutesy avatar.
If you don't care for the
special facial tracking features, you won't be disappointed with the iPhone 8 Plus — though maybe a little sad the design hasn't changed.
«If you were wondering what humanity would do when given access to the most
advanced facial tracking technology available, you now have your answer,» said Apple executive Craig Federighi while turning his face into a talking poo emoji.
It's relatively easy to dismiss what the iPhone X is doing
with facial tracking as a gimmick right now.
Called Animoji, they're animated emoji characters — 9to5Mac's report includes a dog, cat, robot and monkey — that will
incorporate facial tracking and voice recognition in their animations.
That iOS 11 software leak also exposed that animated emoji — or Animoji — are coming to the iPhone, and will «
use facial tracking and the user's voice to create expressive animated messages.»
Also a High Sensitivity webcam boasts advanced software
for facial tracking and fun image effects.
Facial tracking can't quite do that.
Other features that are worth mentioning is
the facial tracking feature which Google displayed during the keynote.
Facial tracking isn't an entirely new technology - we've seen it implemented in games a few times, or in tools like FaceRig, but Star Citizen...
None of this depends on eye or
facial tracking, which would require additional hardware to be built into VR headsets.
A Snapchat demo onstage showed how
the facial tracking was amped up to 11 — right in Snapchat's own app.
There's also been doubt among some I've spoken to post-Apple iPhone X event that you couldn't do Animojis with a regular front - facing camera and
facial tracking.
The facial tracking doesn't stand up to the iPhone X's quality either.
The Animoji will use
facial tracking and the user's voice to create animated messages.
The iPhone 8 camera will allow users to create customized 3D animated emoji by using voice and
facial tracking.
I didn't think much else about it at the time because that answer not only fit exactly with the public documentation available to date on ARKit, the augmented reality — and, with iPhone X,
facial tracking and expression matching — framework Apple provides to developers, but it fit my observations of the light requirements and speed - to - tracking I experienced in the demo area.
We're looking at technologies now like voice and gesture recognition, and
facial tracking that may make the keyboard redundant.»