Apple developing iPhone feature that may allow users to create socially distanced group selfies
09 June, 2020
iPhone users may soon manage to create group selfies with their friends without actually seeing them.
Apple has been granted a patent for new technology to create synthetic group selfies, allowing users to make it look as though they are together, even though they are not.
While the patent was filed long before the onslaught of the coronavirus, the technology is actually a game changer for social media users who are forced to socially distance from friends and loved ones.
In line with the patent, the feature allows iPhones and other Apple products to take people’s individual pictures and arrange them together to create one overall group selfie. The technology may also work for video, according to Apple.
Originally filed in 2018, the patent notes the issue people can face getting a group of men and women for a photo. "Thus, a less strenuous mechanism for capturing an organization selfie will be advantageous," it says.
While there are no details concerning exactly the way the new technology will continue to work yet, it'll be an extension of an existing feature on later iPhone models that allows the camera to discover the difference between a person in leading of a graphic and the background, and separate both.
It’s not yet determined how long it will be until Apple users should be able to try the brand new feature, but if it arrives as the world continues to practise social distancing, it could possibly be the company’s most welcome update yet.
Source: www.thenational.ae