The iPhone X¡¯s new front camera, called the True Depth camera, has quite a few neat tricks it can do. Aside from the obvious FaceID and AR stickers support, one developer found it could turn him into a ghost.
Japanese app developer Kazuya Noshiro tweeted out a preview of a new app he¡¯s working on, one that literally disappears your face from your skull. The brief 10-second video he shared shows Noshiro moving his face around in front of the iPhone X camera, and all you can see is the outline of his head and the objects behind him through the hole in the centre.
He says he built the app on the game development platform Unity, and it¡¯s actually a relatively simple prospect. First, you used a fixed camera position to shoot a background on your iPhone X. Then use the True Depth camera¡¯s face detection capability to remove your face from the scene, instead of adding a beauty filter or cute animal mask on top. The background behind your face stays the same, and the illusion is complete.
There¡¯s no name or release date yet for the app, or really what it¡¯s going to be used for, but it¡¯s pretty safe to say a lot of people are going to use it anyway just for the fun of it.