{"id":312453,"date":"2019-07-05T07:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T05:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=312453"},"modified":"2019-07-05T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T05:52:33","slug":"microsoft-launches-ar-puppets-for-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/312453-microsoft-launches-ar-puppets-for-android.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches AR puppets for Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft-owned Android keyboard app SwiftKey has added a new augmented reality emoji feature similar to Apple&#8217;s Animoji.<\/p>\n<p>Called Puppets, this feature allows users to create a virtual character which they can control with their head movements via the front-facing camera.<\/p>\n<p>The animated emoji use artificial intelligence to replicate the users&#8217; facial expressions on a selection of animated characters, including a panda, owl, dinosaur, and cat.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said this functionality would work on all Android devices which support the SwiftKey app, and will begin rolling out in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>To begin using Puppets immediately, Android smartphone owners can download the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey.beta&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SwiftKey Beta<\/strong><\/a> from the Google Play Store.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31YAemod-HI\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/312277-pc-gamers-are-eagerly-adopting-windows-10.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">PC gamers are eagerly adopting Windows 10<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft-owned Android keyboard app SwiftKey has added a new augmented reality emoji feature similar to Apple&#8217;s Animoji.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":312455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[59845,123,59843,17482],"class_list":["post-312453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-ar-emoji","tag-microsoft","tag-puppets","tag-swiftkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}