A Developer Used the iPhone X to Make His Face Invisible and It’s Terrifyingly Awesome

Ever since Apple launched ARKit and the iPhone X, developers have been going crazy with all of the fun, absurd, and mostly novel things that it enables on the companies flagship generally-bezel-less' smartphone.

While we've previously seen games such every bit The Machines use ARKit to bring the game out into the real world, and apps similar Carrot Weather bring its nighttime-humoured conditions assistant to hang in our surroundings, a Japanese developer has now taken a wild jump over all of these crazy things, and made an app that actually renders his face up invisible.

Kazuya Noshiro has only tweeted a video demo of his app, where he uses the iPhone X'due south splendid face up tracking system to make his face up wait invisible. It'southward an issue eerily similar to Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak (which was awesome, past the way), and really shows off the fun things people are trying with the company'southward new iPhone, and the ARKit platform.

iPhoneXで顔だけ光学迷彩っぽくなるやつできた pic.twitter.com/aPXJcHi8Y4

— のしぷ (@noshipu) December 27, 2017

Kazuya said that he developed the app on game development platform Unity, and used a stock-still camera position to shoot the groundwork of his room, which in turn creates the illusion of invisibility. The video clearly shows Noshiro motion his face around, and the iPhone 10 tracks it flawlessly, to brand the whole process wait seamless, and honestly, quite crawly.

While there's no give-and-take on when the app volition actually go alive on the iOS App Store, or what the developer hopes to really achieve with it, but even if it's only meant to exist a fun, novel way of using the iPhone 10 along with Apple's ARKit, it is pretty damn great.