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iPhone 8 Camera Allows Users to Customize 3D Animated Emoji Using Facial Expressions
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I don't know how to break this to you. Okay, I lie...Samsung has really a really frivolous thing like this, too. And I'm not talking about Bixby and their blasted dedicated button. And it's not in their messaging system...oh wait, they don't have anything like iMessage. You'll have to find your own messaging solution and persuade all of your friends, family and business contacts to use it. Or live with the limitations of SMS, though Textra makes that more attractive.
No, it's a feature of their very nice and otherwise powerful and sophisticated camera app. Unfortunately I often accidentally click it. What is this feature? It's a bunch of built in filters to add rabbit ears and other funny cartoon effects to faces. It's actually quite fun and even adults use it. But it does sometimes get in the way when I am not trying to use it. I can't say any of the more frivolous features of iMessage like exploding confetti have ever tripped me up or gotten in my way when I was trying to send a serious text.
So unfortunately if you're trying to escape frivolity entirely, Samsung is not the way to go. Wait and see what the Pixel has to offer or take a look at the LG V30. But you will still have to live with the Android OS you say you hate. I like Android very much, yet still likely would make the IPhone 8 my first choice. Apple would really have to screw up and screw customers over badly to put me off at this point.
My advice would be to simply ignore this feature on iMessage. I can't stand exploding confetti on iMessage. So I ignore it. There's something for everyone, but that doesn't mean everyone must subject themselves to everything in iMessage.
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Oh that's nice! I love Product Red merchandise!Here you go:
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Do you really think they developed the underlying facial and expression recognition technology just so they could have animated emojis, or do you think it's more likely that they developed it and thought "hey, as we've got this, we can use our emojis with it"?
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This makes the rumour of Face ID being more secure than Touch ID even more plausable. If they can detect loads of facial expressions then the sensor must register loads of data points. A simple way to look at it is a finger print is 2D and a face is 3D, the depth adds more security. It's more complex than that but makes it easy to explain.
I can't see anything about where the users' eyes are looking. Seen as the front facing camera is getting a bump to 4K I imagine apple has some eye-tracking API's which developers can use to make some cool new user interfaces.
I can't see anything about where the users' eyes are looking. Seen as the front facing camera is getting a bump to 4K I imagine apple has some eye-tracking API's which developers can use to make some cool new user interfaces.
Agreed that the underlying tech is a much more important development, even in the first version, but my guess is a disproportionate amount of time in the keynote would/will go to highlighting the animated emojis that can be created out of this.
That said, one wonders how Apple moves forward with the keynote given that, buy the end of the weekend, all their surprises will have leaked through the Homekit thing and now this, and people will have started to digest it...the only surprise left will be pricing and availability, both of which are likely to be bad news for the IPx.
Its looking like apple had to release a 7S due to sheer shortage of the iPhone X/Edition.
I bet if apple could get enough supplies they would not have bothered with the lower end versions.
This looks cool and everything, but I wish Apple would put as much effort into optimizing system animations on older devices.
Hmm, animogi options in the Touch Bar would be a great excuse for Apple to put a great front facing camera in the MacBook Pro. "And all for a price starting at just $5000 (USA), €6000 (Europe) and a very special price of £20,000 (UK)".
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With Apple, anything is possible.How about one that says "sosumi" - now that would be cool
Doubtful. Even though it won't have the bells and whistles that the OLED version has, it still will have the same processor, which means they had to do design and fabrication of the circuit boards, and get the tooling and materials together to manufacture the case. This means ordering components from suppliers ahead of time, and starting the actual assembly about the same time as the iPhone X was supposed to start. Otherwise they wouldn't have this phone either. The schedules for finalization of features and design is late spring to early summer with production starting in July. If they only started the 7s as a backup plan, even in June, they couldn't get the parts designed/made quickly enough to be ready.
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My thought would be that as soon as they knew roughly what the price point for the iPhone X would be, and we heard rumors of that being above $1000 in late December of last year, they decided on a multi-phone release option.
(a) These emoji are charming as heck.
(b) People will LOVE them. And it may surprise you, but Apple has a side business in selling things people love.
(c) Telling the world you hate emoji's is the 20teens equivalent of telling the world that you don't own a TV. Every bit as transparent a bid for superiority, every bit as annoying to the rest of us who can totally see through the transparency.
One of the great things about being confident in yourself is that you no longer feel a need to disparage the harmless silly pleasures of others just so you can look superior. The good news is that most people grow into this confidence in their 30s and 40s, which is why the sneering hipster is so iconically a feature of the 20s and early 30s.
This, a hundred times. The very first thing I thought when I read the article was "holy crap, this will put facial performance capture in the hands of anyone who can afford a high-end iPhone…which they can then also use for everything else!" As long as Apple opens up the right APIs, some third-party dev is bound to come out with an app that records facial performances and exports the motion data for use in 3D animation software, perhaps even free software like Blender. I know it won't be the only inexpensive solution for something like that (and yes, compared to the kind of dedicated rigs games and movies use, that's super cheap), but considering the same device is one that's already with you in every other part of your day-to-day life, it may turn out to be one of the more accessible and easily justifiable ones.
And speaking of accessible, I imagine there are some accessibility features that could be built upon the use of facial muscle movement to navigate and/or type for users who can't do so normally — now without needing the usual (probably hideously expensive) specialized equipment disabled users have had to use thus far. And for regular users, I wonder if some form of lip-reading might be used to augment audio-based speech recognition and improve accuracy even further. The commenters here who are deriding this as a cutesy emoji feature and nothing else are seriously missing a much bigger picture.
Jesus christ what people are complaining...I think it's a nice touch and only one small feature with face scan. I bet you that kids will play will this like crazy!
Not only that, but it's interesting how this seems to make some people angry. That's giving a lot of power to an innocuous piece of fun tech.
I still have iphone 5 so will keep it as long as I can. other phones are ****.
We have a whole lot of tech snobs in our midst.
I have little use for 3D animated emojis but I can still be interested in the implications of the underlying tech.
Yeah, same here. In a previous post I mentioned it would be a great technology demonstrator. And useful for showing the potential of the tech that could be applicable to the realization of other ideas.
I have no need for 3D animated emojis either, but I'm not so narcissistic to believe that what I happen to like/dislike should be all that matters to Apple and its developers. I'm OK knowing there are huge market segments that I have little insight into.
Yet people are still convinced that all these leaks are part of a cunning marketing ploy by Apple.