This Guy Made His Face Disappear Using iPhone X's AR Feature & It's The Creepiest Thing Ever

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.

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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.