"Our background is in animation for content production, so we have Hollywood studios that use the technology to make animated characters come alive," says Brian Amberg, the company's CFO, in the promotional video above. The company first showed off its methods using Microsoft's Kinect camera in 2012, and earlier this year demoed its tech with Intel's RealSense 3D cameras: It does so without the need for facial reference markers and using only commercially available hardware.
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Faceshift's software analyzes human facial expressions in real-time and transposes them onto CGI avatars - anything from robots to orcs to dogs.
However, while Apple isn't saying anything about its intentions for Faceshift, the smaller firm's technology speaks for itself. Now, TechCrunch reports that Apple has confirmed the acquisition, handing out its customary statement: "Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans." Apple later confirmed the same to The Verge.įaceshift uses hardware like Kinect and Intel RealSense Earlier this year it was rumored that Apple had bought Faceshift, a Swiss startup which specializes in facial animation using real-time motion capture.