Overview

Smile, and the robot smiles back. Raise an eyebrow, and it mirrors you PERFECTLY. Make a weird face, and... yeah, it does that too. Southbank Centre's facial tracking installation let visitors puppeteer digital characters using nothing but their expressions. Watching people realize their face controls the robot? Pure magic. Every. Single. Time.

Features

Kinect depth sensing + Faceshift facial recognition tracks 50+ landmark points in real-time. Unity engine maps expressions to avatar blend shapes with sub-frame latency for instantaneous mirroring. Multiple digital identities available: robots, aliens, animals. Advanced tracking achieved years before consumer face filters became mainstream technology.