Tuesday, July 26, 2011

iOS 5 Gets Facial Recognition

style="height: 390px; width: 640px;" width="640" height="390" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QBLKBYrgvk?version=3" />name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />style="height: 390px; width: 640px;" width="640" height="390" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0QBLKBYrgvk?version=3" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" />/> In September 2010,href="http://www.everythingicafe.com/apple-purchases-swedish-facial-recognition-company/2010/09/20/"> Apple purchased a Swedish facial recognition software company called Polar Rose, and like so many of their other software purchases, this is coming to fruition with iOS 5. href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/25/face-detection-software-and-api-lands-in-ios-5-following-apples-2010-purchase-of-polar-rose/">As spotted by 9to5 Mac, iOS 5 will include APIs for facial recognition into the software — which means more than just doing funny things with photo booth. Camera apps will be able to focus on your head, avatars can mimic your facial expression, games will map you onto characters.

This could be a major feature for app developers looking to add some very neat new tools to their titles.

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