While it may just be a marketing ploy to get people to buy an iPhone X, Apple unveiled Animoji on Tuesday.
A new feature in iOS 11, Animoji’s are animated versions of emojis found on the iPhone. Animoji will employ Face ID hardware face-scanning features found on the iPhone X to create custom 3D versions based on your own facial expressions. Supposedly they started working on this back in 2011.
Face ID taps into neural networks and the new A11 processor and continues to recognize a person’s face whether in low light, wearing a hat, or you grow a beard that covers part of your face.
To recognize a person, the camera projects 30,000 invisible dots to map their face. Face ID has a one in a million chance of inaccurately identifying a face, Apple’s senior vice president of marketing Phil Schiller said onstage today.
Slate wrote a piece on three things they found potentially troubling about animojis.
From the article:
Third and finally, the very charms of the system are themselves troubling. As many have already noted, and as others will point out, employing facial recognition as a security feature comes at a risk, since it potentially makes it easier for others to unlock your device by holding it up to your face. It also represents the consumer-level creep of technology that can be used to identify protesters and otherwise put personal privacy in jeopardy.
Animoji.com was registered back in 2013 after dropping once, Animojis.com was registered in 2014 after dropping once. Someone registered Animoji.media today. A couple minutes ago as a pure speculation I registered Animojimedia.com.
Apple jumped the proberbial shark with this latest iteration of the iphone. After I’m done with my iphone 7, I fully expect to move to Android.
I am extremely thankful that I’m NOT an Apple stockholder.
Like you as a pure speculation I just registered 3DAnimojis.com which is similar to 3DHololens.com I sold for 1200 USD through Afternic in 2015!
If someones going to rob you, tie you down, and hold the phone to your face to unlock it, I think you have bigger problems than just phone security happening and the phone should be the least of your concerns. As far as protecting protestors identities, I’m a firm believer that people should be held accountable for what they do or crimes they commit. If a protestor has to hide who they are in order to speak the truth, something else may be wrong that’s being overlooked.
I get that some people need anonymity (victims of abuse hiding from the predator, famous people, people in witness protection, etc.), however, 99% of people using these devices trying to hide their identity, more than likely don’t fall into those categories. Sadly, due to the rampant fraud these days of “anonymous” users, the need for security tends to pose an inconvenience for those genuinely in need of said privacy features.
It’s sad that a few bad apples can ruin it for everyone else, however, if nothing is done to thwart it, more crime will happen. That’s my personal opinion though and should not reflect on any of my clients or colleagues.
The more people look at there phone the less sex they have in real life:-)