You control this new iPhone X game by wiggling your eyebrows

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Rainbow
I'd love to have seen Roger Moore play this game.
Photo: Nathan Gitter

When it comes to the iPhone X, facial recognition is most associated with the Face ID biometric security system, but there are other ways to use the front-facing camera on your device.

In a new game, titled Rainbrow, Washington University computer science graduate Nathan Gitter has created an innovative new game mechanic using Apple’s TrueDepth camera system — requiring players to control an on-screen character by raising or lowering their eyebrows. Yes, seriously!

The game is, essentially, a variation on a classic format as you move a character — in this case, an emoji face — around to collect on-screen points, and avoid obstacles. Raising your eyebrows will move the emoji up, grimacing moves it down, and keeping your face neutral means that you remain stationary.

As games go, this one is fairly simplistic, with the protagonist and antagonists both represented by emojis, and the goal being nothing more complex than gathering as many points as you can, before you die. Still, it’s a nifty concept, and another glimpse at how developers are seizing on the new features of the iPhone X in a way that may not have originally been considered by its creators.

Just like the plethora of accelerometer-related games that arrived with the first iPhone, it seems that the TrueDepth camera system is going to result in some fascinating new experiments.

Rainbrow is available for free to download from the App Store. Remember that you’ll need an iPhone X to run it, though!

Via: Macrumors

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