Making Face Masks!?
- Angela Huang
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 3, 2020
For my very first studio session for DES241 in semester 2, we sat down and learnt all the fascinating facts about the past and unpredictable future of Mixed Reality including AR, VR and IoT.
We also got to try out many products involving AR and VR technology, playing with the technology was a very interesting experience but seeing how others interact was also great fun. In this post however I will be discussing about my experience with the Spark AR Studio application because with the app I was able to create something with the AR technology personalized to me.
Taking selfies with a cat or dog filter over our faces has been very popular recently, this is probably one of the most common and most known use of AR technology among the wider community. Spark AR Studio makes creating a filter very easy, the interfaces and tutorials are easy to understand and follow. Following a few tutorials on their website and putting the techniques together I was able to create my own face mask filter.
The video on top was my first interaction on my own with Spark AR Studio. The illustrations on top of the head is placed on a plane which means it won't be able to interact with the subject which in this place is me, however the dark circles used the face tracker technology so it would follow my movements(sorry for the bad acting). What was really interesting is that when I was creating the dark circles all I did was randomly draw 2 purple arks and blended it out on a blank canvas and imported the image, however the app was able to adjust the position and size of the dark circles to suit different people.
This app has a whole range of different features, individuals can use the face tracker to add extra accessories to the face such as the wide known dog filter or add make up. You can also add interactions and special effects, there are just so many possibilities. In the past I have done a project from scratch which involves identifying objects and for a computer to recognize an object you need to feed it with thousands and thousands of photos of the object in different forms, shapes, sizes ect, technology has evolved so much and is becoming more and more simple and convenient.
Billinghurst, M. (2020). DES241 Designing Mixed Realities. WHAT IS MIXED REALITIES?. [Lecture Notes].
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