Now, Apple has just confirmed that they have bought the motion capture start-up Faceshift. Using their facial recognition Polar Rose applied auto-tagging for users.This year, talks have been going on about Apple buying a start-up company.

The company had a service that allowed users to name people in their photos on photo sharing sites like Flickr and using their Facebook contacts. Its machine vision products map out 3D environments and track movements of bodies, faces and facial expressions.Īnd in 2010 Apple scooped up all of the shares of a Swedish face recognition company called Polar Rose. The chip’s 3D sensors are designed to enable nature interaction between people and devices and between devices and their surroundings. In 2013, Apple bought PrimeSense, an Israeli maker of chips that enable three-dimensional (3D) machine vision. In 2013 Apple was granted a patent for gesture control of multimedia editing applications. The gestures could be used to scrolling, selecting, zooming, and more.

The sensors would recognize hand gestures. Another 2014 patent filing for a “computer user interface system and method” could involve a Mac display with sensors built into all sides of the screen’s bezel. The result could be gesture recognition on Macs, Apple TVs and iOS devices akin to that of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect. Last year Apple was granted a patent for a “lens array projector” that involves a projection-based 3D mapping solution. In Mac Apple was granted a patent for “locking and unlocking a mobile device using facial recognition.” The invention could theoretically be used to unlock your iOS device - and perhaps a Mac - by analyzing your mug with the gadget’s on-board camera. IF the rumor is true, it’s not Apple’s first rodeo when it comes to facial motion and gesture control technology. You can also get a perpetual license for non-commercial use for $150. Each seat of the software costs US$1,500/year.

The animation data may be streamed live into Maya, MotionBuilder or Unity, or exported in a range of standard file formats, including BVH and FBX.įaceshift Studio 2015 - which has reportedly been discontinued - is (was?) available for Mac OS X and Windows. The software analyzes the face motions of an actor, and describes them as a mixture of basic expressions, plus head orientation and gaze, to create a custom 3D avatar, and to record facial animation data in real time. The company’s Faceshift Studio is a markerless facial motion capture system. , basing its conclusion on “a few whispers and some research,” says it “thinks” that Apple has bought a company called Faceshift.

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