Chapter 9: Selfies: Making Funny Faces
In this chapter, you will learn how to use Unity AR Foundation for face tracking in order to make fun and entertaining face filters. I apologize in advance for showing my handsome face throughout this chapter – it's a necessary evil when working with selfies!
We'll start with a brief explanation of how face tracking works, and then we will create a new AR scene with face tracking enabled. We will use a couple of 3D head models that track your head pose and to which you can add extra accessories, such as a hat and sunglasses. We are going to build a main menu so that the user can select and change models at runtime. We'll then work with dynamic face meshes and create several materials to easily switch between them. In the last part, we'll look at more advanced features such as eye tracking, face regions (ARCore), and blend shapes (ARKit).
We will cover the following topics:
- Understanding face tracking ...
