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Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

cstrep writes "Eight years ago, Opera introduced Mouse Gestures as a way to speed up your interaction with the browser, and focus on what's important: Content. In 2005, Voice Navigation was introduced, and more recently we've worked with Nintendo to create a browser that takes full advantage of the 'Wiimote' and later, the touchscreen in the DSi. Today Opera introduces Face Gestures, a revolutionary technology designed to make interacting with Opera easier on computers with cameras. Face Gestures lets you perform frequent browsing operations with natural and easy to make face gestures. By using an internal technology dubbed 'Face Observation Opera Language,' we are able to recognize pre-determined facial expressions and match them to commands on the Opera browser."

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  1. Goatse? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Will it automatically close the tab when you screw up your face in disgust?

    April fool?

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    1. Re:Goatse? by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes. In addition, if your eyes pop out of their sockets and you start to drool, it automatically finds more porn like the stuff you're looking at.

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  2. Re:Oh yeah, it's April 1st... by Spazztastic · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...may as well not read slashdot today. Am I the only one who truly dislikes April 1st and all the crap that people do "to celebrate"?

    Translation: Get off my lawn.

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  3. FOOL by BaatZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Face Observation Opera Language == FOOL. quite obvious but a pitty, i'd like this feature !

  4. The japanese version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will have a bukkake recognition feature.

  5. Re:pron mode by xenolion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    nice

  6. Dear lord! I hope my mother was wrong about... by Chyeld · · Score: 4, Funny

    So... that whole thing about "don't make faces dear, someday it'll freeze like that" makes me a bit worried. What happens when I pull a muscle and all the sudden Opera takes it as my "O" face and keeps popping up porn sites?

    PS. Anyone else notice the Achievements section in their profile now? ^_^

  7. Not Opera original by halber_mensch · · Score: 4, Funny

    This technology was originally patented by Atypical Peripheral Recognition Intelligence Laboratories as "Facial Orientation Observation Language".

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  8. Re:Oh yeah, it's April 1st... by hal2814 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My personal rule for practical jokes is that they are fun provided nobody involved would mind being the victim. Based on what I'm reading, you're too thin skinned to enjoy them so I'd neither play one on you nor expect one from you. But there are plenty of people on this earth who don't associate a small joke at someone else's expense as abject humiliation or a sign that the victim is a moron. I've been on both ends of practical jokes. To me, being the occasional victim is worth the enjoyment others get from them. And pulling one off is worth the effort given the victim is a good sport about it.

  9. Re:pron mode by GogglesPisano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Would that be called the "O Face" gesture?

  10. Re:Oh yeah, it's April 1st... by Yvan256 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good news everyone! That's one of the gestures! - Professor Farnsworth

  11. Re:Oh yeah, it's April 1st... by Kryis · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it is recognising facial gestures, you probably will get caught

  12. +5 In The Mood! by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know that when I come to /. on April 1, what I'm looking for is an even-handed, discerning discussion of the ethics of comedy, with due attention to qualifications and ramifications.

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    1. Re:+5 In The Mood! by ebh · · Score: 2, Interesting

      OK, discuss the ethical ramifications of this one:

      I am up for a promotion at work. My cheap-bastard boss's boss is holding it up because he thinks he'll get a gold star for saving the money, and probably won't let it go through until he has my resignation letter in hand. I don't want it to come to that.

      I'm a sysadmin and I rarely wear anything but blue jeans to work. My April Fool's joke is that I told them I was taking this morning off to "take care of some personal business". I'm going to show up at lunchtime in a dress shirt and suit pants, letting them believe that my "personal business" was an interview. They'll see through it quickly, but I want that half-second of panic to stick.

      Discuss.

  13. Re:Meh by Uncle+Rummy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This thing. (See The April Fool - 2nd from the bottom of the list.)

    I'm confused now, though. A lot of people seem to think the achievement is for posting in the story about achievements rather than this one.

  14. They should offer a confirmation window by its_schwim · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've got facial tics and keep ending up at sites I don't want to visit. For instance, it's taken me over an hour to post this comment because it keeps whisking me off to Richard Simmon's fan site. I've bought "Sweating to the Oldies" and a pink wife beater in hopes that it wouldn't make me visit again, but I now find myself as a lifetime member. Some kind of confirmation would be welcome.