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Facebook Acquires FacioMetrics To Add ‘Fun Effects’ To Photos and Videos

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The company produced facial behavior and demographic tools for developers, using video. These tools aid facial detection and understanding, and even let you swap faces. The app is still in its prototyping phase, but there’s certainly an advantage to getting these augmented reality filters up and running sooner than later.

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Magic Leap’s John Gaeta talks about the future of cinema, storytelling and mixed reality

The Ghost Howls

At the same time I was living in Greenwich Village and I had some talented friends working in the advertising sector, making things like stop-motion animation for advertising… and these friends told me that a new studio was being built in Massachusetts by Douglas Trumbull. But VR encloses people and makes them stay in virtual rooms.