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The Parallax View

Project from Peder Norrby is an IphoneX visual toy using TrueDepth facetracking to produce a Trompe-l'œil effect of depth from the position of your head:

Explainer video - enable sound! The app, called #TheParallaxView, is in review on @AppStore#iPhoneX #ARKit #FaceTracking #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/6P8ofGZqP4

— ΛLGΘMΨSΓIC (@algomystic)

February 28, 2018

Yes it’s ARKit face tracking and #madewithunity … basically non-symmetric camera frustum / off-axis projection.

The app is currently in review, but Peder plans to release the code to Github in the future for developers to experiment with.

3DNes V2

Project from Trần Vũ Trúc is an update to previous online version, allowing to play classic NES games in 3D now with VR features:

3DNes Overview

- Play NES games with an unique 3D experience

- Support any display resolution - window mode or full screen

- Support game speed adjustment

- Support Save/Load states

- Support zipped roms

- Create your own 3D interpretation.

- Share/Get  3D customizations at the 3DN Repository

- Play with Virtual Reality Headsets - Pro Feature

- Retina Rendering Mode - Pro Feature

- Character Tracking Camera  - Pro Feature

81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist - Samia Halaby

Video from The Guru Meditation talks to painter who bought the renowned computer in 1985 to expand her art practice, calling her programming pieces ‘Kinetic Painting’:

Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old.  She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create “kinetic paintings” with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since. Samia has exhibited in prestigious venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, The British Museum,  Lincoln Center, The Chicago Institute of Art, Arab World Institute, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sakakini Art Center, and Ayyam Gallery just to name a few. 

GIF Face

Developer Tim Sears is working on an iOS Augmented Reality app which can play GIFs on your face:

As Tumblr isn’t letting me embed the original tweet, you can view the video posted here

OK, I think I figured out the secret to getting animated gifs to look awesome with Face AR. Transparency! I’m replacing all black color with clear and it totally changes the experience. 

As said in the video, Tim hopes the app (whatever it will be officially called) feature will be released very soon.

Updates on development should be on Tim’s Twitter account here