Post #2437526
2026-05-11 13:45 UTC
Replies (7)
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@lina@vt.social 2026-05-11 13:50
I'm honestly quite disappointed with /r/vtubertech. I expected better than this from the VTuber community. I get that this is an *extremely* widespread myth, but people are getting irrationally angry at the idea that maybe Apple just has a really good face tracking model and it's not the camera. Literally all they have to do is just... cover up the depth camera on an iPhone and see how the tracking still works practically the same, with just the front selfie cam. But oh well, I guess I'll just write and release "VBridger for macOS except it's using the webcam" instead 😇
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@mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe 2026-05-11 13:47
@lina@vt.social I wouldn't be surprised if you gave them the proof and they wouldn't be convinced anyway :neocat__w:
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@thekhanj@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 14:17
@lina@vt.social Cool :))
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@tytan652@framapiaf.org 2026-05-11 14:32
@lina@vt.social It is CPU-only capable or does it require apple silicon features ? Edit: my macOS/iOS knowledge is really lacking
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@maki@social.ran.cafe 2026-05-11 15:24
@lina@vt.social classic reddit unfortunately. i know apple bought faceshift many years ago and we were using that for high fidelity vr, the failed second life successor. however weights are definitely modern. im not surprised to hear this though and really hope you can figure out a way to make this work! legendary find.
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@nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-11 23:42
@lina@vt.social huh, does that framework actually work? It wouldn't surprise me if those are stubs to let iOS apps linking to ARKit load on Mac at all 🤔
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@ari@fedi.arimelody.space 2026-05-12 07:52
@lina@vt.social this makes sense intuitively! afaik, the secret sauce to face ID is an infra-red camera- you could slap any old face tracking algorithm (albeit calibrated to those values) and i don't see why you wouldn't get functioning face tracking! reddit is...doing what they do.