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OMOTE: Real-time face tracking and projection mapping

Forget the faces of historic monuments, the new frontier of projection mapping is the faces of humans.

Created by Nobumichi Asai and friends, technical details behind the process are scant at the moment. From this Tumblr post, it’s clear that step one is a 3D laser scan of the model’s face.

And then… you know, eventually you get this:

Hat tip to David Hobizal.

Justin Cone

Together with Carlos El Asmar, Justin co-founded Motionographer, F5 and The Motion Awards. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with is wife, son and fluffball of a dog. Before taking on Motionographer full-time, Justin worked in various capacities at Psyop, NBC-Universal, Apple, Adobe and SCAD.