In recent years, AR has been the focus of capital pursuit. Because the technical threshold is relatively high, AR and consumers always maintain a “often heard, not quite understand” distance. Maybe Pokemon Go is the peak of AR awareness in the past two years… But that hasn’t stopped the titans from rushing to AR.
How far does AR have to go? The possibilities for Web AR are endless
Apple’s new product conference just past made AR the biggest explosive point of new phones. Based on ARKit, iPhone strides into the AR world. Back in June, Apple announced the new ARKit at WWDC, which had already caught the developer’s imagination. This development kit can be great, equipped with ARKit AR tape measure, AR Nike shoes, Space X rocket recovery, ARKit architectural design scheme were all r & D brother out. Of course, with the addition of ARKit to ios, Google has also released ARCore to take on Apple in the areas of motion capture, environment awareness, light awareness and so on.
Domestic fashion players are not idle, although objectively speaking, and Apple, Google, respectively for iOS and Android launched AR platform there is still a gap in the depth of technology, but AR interaction is not a new thing. For example, QQ-AR can scan specific pictures and jump out of the 3D picture combining real and virtual. Another example is alipay’s AR scan, put the target into the lens, you can identify the flower name or participate in brand merchants AR marketing activities. It can be said that domestic BAT and AR vertical technology companies have their own AR solutions. Unfortunately, it may be limited by the computing power and battery life of the device, so the application scenarios are relatively narrow.
In this case, WebAR launched by UC can be said to be unique. Before we get to know how refreshing WebAR is, let’s play with our own faces. Anyway, I believe that most ordinary users do not understand the various AR nouns mentioned above. But that doesn’t affect the tech brother’s determination to grasp the nettle. In recent days, a webAR-based double 11 AR emoticon game from UC has become popular on all major social platforms, allowing people to play with their faces while enjoying the addiction to AR.
Uc-ar expression game is popular, face detection is not ambiguous
The game is simple: open UC, scan the entry at the bottom of the QR code and enter the game. With AR facial recognition technology, users can score points by imitating the red envelope’s emoticons, and get double 11 red envelopes if they succeed. The game’s dark tech vibe is clearly more convincing than other games on the double 11 market that trick users into measuring their appearance level based on random probability.
Do you see the cheap red envelopes on Michael Wang’s face? Encounter the above will be slanting face stick out tongue, encounter the below will go up and roll your eyes and say “slightly slightly slightly”… Although a little deep well ice, but desk work for a long time, a set of facial expressions is also very beneficial to physical and mental health. Different emojis have different difficulty scores, and the higher the score, the more proof you are a walking emoji. Although the stars have yan, someone is angry, or to say that the master in the folk.
Web-based AR makes developing AR applications like developing HTML5
This little game is based on the WebAR framework launched by UC. The face detection technology in the game can automatically detect whether your expression is consistent with the expression of the red envelope. According to introduction, the game page uses self-developed framework token.js to invoke face recognition algorithm with Native efficiency.
In addition to ensuring the complete control force of the camera, a complete identification data processing module can also be possessed by rendering the camera data with high performance of GPU. In order to ensure the monitoring efficiency of full frame, convolutional neural network is also adopted, and the size of model plus operating environment is less than 2MB.
Having said all that, it’s more intuitive to go straight to the picture above. This picture is said to be the origin of the UC-AR emoji game. Clearly, UC’s research and development brother is really good at association. One guess: will it be hard for emoticons to make friends? After all, you can develop emojis just by seeing them…
In addition to face recognition, Tofu. Js also possesses other recognition capabilities, such as Marker recognition. 3D/2D applications of Marker recognition can be rapidly developed based on Tofu. This UC 3D squirrel is based on Marker recognition.
Well, the licking screen of the licking screen, the funny than also funny than, the popular science of the popular science, we still pull back to UC WebAR. In fact, when many people first heard WebAR, they would question: In the mobile Internet era where the Web is losing ground to APP, can the Web still make a comeback? It remains to be seen whether UC can reverse the trend, but we can still think about UC’s vision at this year’s Cloud Conference — “Make the Web omnipotent”. Use technical language to explain the core advantages of WebAR, that is to say, AR capabilities are opened on the Web side, allowing developers to develop AR applications as HTML5 applications. In short, developing AR applications can be simple.
In a word, the black technology that UC shows in AR once again shows the technical strength of UC. It is believed that UC will continue to work deeply in the AR field in the future and make Web omnipotent.
Liu Kuang, meditation on the Internet, wechat official account: Liukuang110