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Briefing
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- AR-related acquisition – Acquired Faciometrics, spinoff company from Carnegie Mellon which made an app that detects emotions from people’s faces
- Facebook’s plans – Use Faciometrics technology to improve augmented reality selfie face masks on its videos and live broadcasts, which make photos and videos more engaging and fun, competing with Snapchat
- Artificial intelligence – Apply deep learning to mobile through gesture controls and facial tracking, which can, for example, be used to like or display reactions to posts based on people’s emotions
- Potential applications – Include augmented/virtual reality, animation, audience reaction measurement, driver monitoring, focus groups analysis, and depression diagnosis
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