Did you hear about the iPhone X?
It’s Apple’s latest and greatest iPhone. It’s got all kinds of whizzy features like an end-to-end screen and facial recognition technology. It also costs the best part of a grand. Yeah, you heard about it.
One of the features demonstrated at the Apple Event a while back was Animojis – animated emojis. Using the iPhone X’s facial mapping, you can make emojis’ mouths move, give them facial expressions – you can effectively become and emoji. Or an emoji can effectively become you. Weird.
But the feature has taken on a life of its own in a perhaps unexpected way. People are syncing Animojis up with songs, giving birth to a new genre of internet… thing: Animoji Karaoke.
Confused? Just watch a few of the samples below. You’ll be dying for an iPhone X before long. Not enough to splash out a grand, mind, but still.
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is an absolute must.
And then we proceeded to waste half our day. #animojikaraoke #iphonex #queen #bohemianrapsody #carriedaway pic.twitter.com/4TBBg6qQKS
— Mia Harrison (@miaharrison@aus.social) (@ManxomeMia) November 4, 2017
How about Blue Swede’s ‘Hooked on a Feeling’ from Guardians of the Galaxy?
More Animoji Karaoke for you. pic.twitter.com/pxvxfCUTi2
— Harry McCracken 🇺🇦✡️ (@harrymccracken) November 2, 2017
Here’s a whole host of critters singing Daddy Yankee’s ‘Gasolina’.
https://twitter.com/SnazzyQ/status/927002329819127808
A quick (but nonetheless brilliant) clip of ‘Mr Brightside’.
https://twitter.com/MaxFicarro/status/926524102826917889
A bit of Smash Mouth, obviously.
https://twitter.com/WSig/status/926510041187995648
And of course, ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’
https://twitter.com/NickStarr/status/926599000370896902
The future is here, and it is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying.
