In the future, you may be walking down the street and not know what’s real and what’s not. You see beautiful people that all look like celebrities. But then the light catches his face just right, and you realize it’s just a projection. It’s 3D make up. It’s a digital face tattoo. It’s Cirque de Soleil 2.0. It’s scary, but it’s so cool.
ArtistArturo Castromade this amazingly, freakish video titled “Faces.” He calls it realtime face substitution and writes that it’s made with Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker + Jason Saragih’sfacetracker library, a C/C++ API for real time generic non-rigid face alignment and tracking.
Castro also used theimage clone codeofKevin Atkinson, a coder at Weta Digital. “I imagine you could grab a face from another camera, and hence steal someone else’s face in real time,” says Atkinson. Castro says that idea was the very inspiration for his project. He also says that at this time cartoon faces don’t work so well. Just real people’s faces.
Watch the video here.
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Story byCourtney Boyd Myers
Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder of audience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups gr(show all)Courtney Boyd Myers is the founder ofaudience.io, a transatlantic company designed to help New York and London based technology startups grow internationally.
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