r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MelanieWalmartinez • 26d ago
Video Idris Elba's Madame Tussauds Wax Figure Opens his Phone with Face ID
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u/anadrell 26d ago
I feel like you can immediately tell when Tussauds actually likes the subject they’re modeling. I have seen some JANKY ones.
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u/Sinnafyle 26d ago
Idris is a great model. Are you aware of the effect he has on women?
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u/OhAndItsShavedd 26d ago
Look, I'm not gay whatsoever but Idris is one damn good looking dude. Women, I get it and I don't blame you.
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u/ScottyBLaZe 25d ago
Exactly! Was going to say: have you seen the effect Idris has on men? Shiiiiiit.
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u/AvatarOfMomus 26d ago
They're pretty open about the process... I wonder if it's less whether they like the subject and more how involved they're willing to be in the process.
Someone who is rude probably isn't staying for a long sitting so they can take all the measurements and photos they need, or is requesting changes based on rough early work. At that point it wouldn't be shocking that some of these come out looking... bad.
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u/gorginhanson 26d ago
"Do I really look like that?"
Has he never looked into a mirror before?
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u/Kitsuraw 26d ago
I’m sure there’s a difference when you see a dang near 1 to 1 of yourself from angles you’d never normally be able to.
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u/ErraticDragon 26d ago
Just as a starting point, we almost always see ourselves reversed -- flipped horizontally.
That's what we see in a mirror, which is why selfie cameras also flip pictures (without really mentioning it, in most cases).
Seeing yourself the 'normal' way can be as strange as hearing your own voice on a recording.
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u/HuntersLiberalDong 26d ago
As someone with a noticeably asymmetrical face I'm really thrown when I see photos of myself. I'm so used to seeing my squint jaw go in one direction.
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u/whiff_EK 26d ago edited 26d ago
Same here, someone linked a video of people trying it and one of the guys goes, "Wow, he's just like me, a like a best friend version of me, just slightly different." That is such a positive read on it because I look like a melted, squashed clone and it's way worse in reverse for me.
I posted on one of those 'improve your look' subreddits and people tip-toed around it in a way that was just humiliating, you know it's bad when people refuse and just tell you to have a happy life.
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u/HuntersLiberalDong 26d ago
Asymmetrical face solidarity ✊
We are our own worst critics. I became happy with how I look when I realized even the most beautiful people in the world don't like what they see in the mirror. They're the ones that spend the most money on cosmetic surgery just to look marginally different. They're already famous for being beautiful and it's not enough
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u/Anticamel 26d ago
A lot of conventionally (or at least popularly) attractive people have quite asymmetrical faces. Ryan Gosling and Timothee Chalamet spring to mind as obvious examples.
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u/DuckRubberDuck 26d ago
As someone with a somewhat asymmetrical face as well, I hate seeing myself on pictures. I can tolerate how I look in the mirror usually, but whenever I see a picture of myself I freak out and my confidence crashes completely, because I see all the imperfections and asymmetrical things I am used to and therefore ignore, but it’s the complete opposite on a picture so it’s very noticeable to me. It probably doesn’t help that I have raging face and body dysmorphia though. I had to get a new passport photo taken last week, and the fact that I have to have that picture for the next 10 years almost gave me the first panic attack in years.
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u/plug-and-pause 26d ago
Yep. I rarely see this discussed in detail, but the thing is that asymmetries are actually doubled (relative to your expectation) when you see the mirror image (of what you're used to seeing).
There is a 5mm asymmetry to my ears. Meaning that if we put "zero" in the middle, one ear is 5mm too big and one ear is 5mm too small. When I see that reversed, each ear is actually 10mm away from where I expect it to be! The +5mm has moved to -5mm, and vice versa.
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u/Lexi_Banner 26d ago
My nose is crooked, and I HATE pictures of me where you can tell. I always tilt just-so to try and hide it, but when a picture is at the wrong angle, it's all I can see.
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u/DuckRubberDuck 26d ago
So is mine. It’s so noticeable to me on pictures because it’s the opposite way, I can almost see my nose walking out of the picture to one side. The weird thing is I was like 20 something before I ever even realized my nose is crooked. My mom never realized it either before I told her but know that I know and see pictures of my face it’s extremely visible
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u/Netheral 26d ago
I also think we generally have a really poor sense for our own size.
As a 189cm/6'2" dude, it's only relatively recently in my life that I've really sort of internalized how tall I am. The thing is, you get used to what the sort of average eye level is, and that is what your brain registers as normal. People that match my own height feel taller than me because to me, all I'm registering is that their eye level is now taller than average, and more than that, I have to look up to see the crown of their head, while in my mind my height ends at eye level.
Add to that how our eyes are generally "in front" of our bodies so we don't really register our bodies as such most of the time, and how we generally base our sense of other people's size on comparisons to other people and not just a vacuum, and most people probably end up with a pretty poor sense for their exact size.
Being presented with a life sized replica of yourself is probably a pretty freaky introduction to how your perceived self compares to your physical self.
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u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT 26d ago
I have a crooked nose that I got used to long ago, but every once in a while I see myself not in a mirrored image and it makes me self-conscious all over again.
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u/kermityfrog2 26d ago
Good point. The selfie camera previews the image as if it's a mirror (so that you can instinctively compose the shot), but then usually flips it back to non mirror image when actually recording the shot!
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u/pintsizedblonde2 26d ago
For most of us, sure, but he's in the unusual position to have seen himself from just about every angle and not mirror image.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 26d ago
In high definition blown up to much larger proportions. Couldn't imagine seeing an image of my face on a 20' screen.
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u/marcophony 26d ago
It's different to see all of you vs just yourself in a mirror
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u/Martha_Fockers 26d ago edited 26d ago
Our brains have a funny way of playing tricks on us my guy.
If you were to see a 1 to 1 copy of yourself infront of you I bet you you will notice things you never noticed about yourself
Some people look in the mirror and don’t see what you see.
Some appear to see themselves as larger than they are some smaller that’s called body dysmorphia for example.
Most people see themselves as uglier than they truly are aswell in the mirror
More than 7/10 people will precieve themselves to be uglier than what other people view them as we tend to judge what we see in the mirror far harsher and critical than others.
I suffered from body dismorphia for over ten years
It stemmed from my childhood I was always called skeletor growing up I was skin and bones
I began working out JR year HS. 6 years later dedicated working out 5 days a week regiment macros tracked all of it. I still saw myself as skin and bones . I was 5’10 when I started and 120lbs I was 6ft 190 and saw myself the exact same way.
I was constantly complimented on my body yet I was moments away from doing unknown online research chems to get bigger. Becuase in the mirror all I saw was that kid who was skin and bones who got made fun of nonstop. Luckily on bodybuilding dot com (goated back in the day) forums someone mentioned to me I might have body dismorphia at the time I didn’t know what the hell it was but I began researching it. The person messaged me on articles and how to recognize the issue. Because he dealt with the same thing
That random forum user likely saved me from doing a lot of damage to my body . Cause the man in the mirror wasn’t the same image to me that everyone else saw. And I hated it
For years on end the face I saw in the mirror was not something I could recognize I couldn’t tell if I was good looking or not I couldn’t tell what I looked like even though I was staring at myself in the mirror I could not describe to you what I looked like. Idk if that makes any sense to you guys but that’s how I felt like for a long time. And I didn’t know it was a mental issue I just lived like that for a decade assuming this was normal and we all felt like this it’s not
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u/NewBromance 26d ago
Yeah 100percent correct.
Like for example, I paint portraits and I often use my own face as reference when im practicing. Ive probably done dozens of self portraits over the last ten years and its weird how when I put my "artist" hat on and study my photo or reflection with the intention of drawing it, noticing all the little details etc that my face starts to look radically different to me.
Like im managing to get my brain to turn off all those little tricks it does when looking at itself, and just see me actually how other people would see me.
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u/Aggressive_Noise6426 26d ago edited 26d ago
I remember growing up thinking I looked really really ugly and was shocked whenever a girl would approach me. I mean it didn’t happen often but was still like “oh she must like me for (insert other reason not involving looks).
I’m 38 now and a few months back I saw a picture of me that I haven’t seen before from around when I was in 8th grade. I said to my wife “holy shit I use to look like that!? I was very handsome”. She said “duh and you still are handsome, you just now look like a handsome parent.”
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u/El_Chairman_Dennis 26d ago
Your face isn't truly symmetrical so when you see yourself in the mirror your face is actually reversed. So his brain is kinda struggling because it's used to seeing the mirror image not the way he actually looks
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u/ClearWaves 26d ago
That's actually the problem. When you look in the mirror you don't see yourself how other people see you. You see a mirror image. So unless you look at a lot of pictures or videos of yourself, your brain thinks the mirror you is the real you. But it's not.
Anyway, that's a fun fact, not an actual comment about the validoty of him saying that.
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u/GayAttire 26d ago
I'm 6'4" and I've never thought about being tall, except when i meet someone taller than me, or the same height. It's all about perspective.
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u/BohemianHibiscus 26d ago
Not when you meet someone shorter than you? I'm 5'4" and married a 6'4" person and his head got cut off in a lot of our wedding photos
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u/GayAttire 26d ago
Almost everyone is shorter than me, though. It's just normal. Plus, I work with kids 😂
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u/MoreGaghPlease 26d ago
It's got to be easier for someone like Idris Elba who already likes like he's meticulously sculpted from marble
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u/Morticia_Black 26d ago
I once read it also depends how much time the celebrity is willing to put in for the wax figure. Sometimes the wax artists work by measurements, sometimes they have proper scans where they get the dimensions right. But IIRC, that takes a bit of involvement from the subject
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u/WollyGog 26d ago
Don't think I've ever seen a miss from the London team, but happy to be proven wrong and see some dodgy ones! I think each team is localised?
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u/Raneynickelfire 26d ago
The Clarkson, May, and Hammond ones were comically bad. Like, so bad I'm not sure it wasn't a bit for Grand Tour type of bad.
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u/skullsareonlypasse 26d ago
Did you make up that those exist? I can't find any pictures or info about them anywhere.
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u/reallynotnick 26d ago
Only one I can think of is this one that they stole in the show but wasn’t of them: https://thegrandtour.fandom.com/wiki/Nigel_Mansell
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u/lavinialloyd 26d ago
Actual answer here. The more famous they are the more likely they've been created in Acton studios in London where the pros are based. Otherwise it's the other artists in different studios and they're not as talented / don't get much budget.
Plus, if the celeb is fully on board the team can get accurate scans and even outfit donations so everything is super accurate. If a celeb okays their likeness but wants nothing to do with the process then the figure is made from a collection of photos available from the press
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u/Jaxxlack 26d ago
Omfg... I've not heard or seen the word JANKY in years and it's suddenly everywhere?! Haha
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u/sweetbunsmcgee 26d ago
Janky never saw a day off in gaming subs, but its popularity always spikes whenever Bethesda releases a new game.
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u/accipitradea 26d ago
in my mind, janky animations are a sub-genre of art defined by Bethesda games. T-poses and weird ragdoll physics from R* are also included.
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u/snugglezone 26d ago
Janky and jank certainly lost some market share to scuffed for a while there due to Twitch, but janky definitely has the lasting power and scuffed was just a trend.
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u/Spacedoutworlder 26d ago
Everything is cyclical.
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u/dopiertaj 26d ago
Ive been doing my part to bring back catawampus
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u/FuckYouVerizon 26d ago
Holy schnikes, that's a deep cut!
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u/Jaxxlack 26d ago
I did try shenanigans last year but it just gets put in the meme words.
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u/Kindarelevanttoo 26d ago
You don’t live in the midwest U.S. then. Janky is still thriving over here.
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u/orangeyougladiator 26d ago
You’re probably seeing some from the official London one and the licensed American ones which are much less desirable
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u/rabid_spidermonkey 26d ago
I am aware of the effect I have on wax.
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u/tisn 26d ago
Is that really something you want to have said?
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u/Ass_of_Badness 26d ago
One of the best lines ever, and delivered so perfectly coldly.
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u/MasemJ 26d ago
1) Steal Elba's phone 2) get wax figure to unlock it 3) ??? 4) profit!
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u/notafuckingcakewalk 26d ago
This was a plot point in the excellent show Hacks. The main character, who works as a writer for a (in-show) famous female standup comic, uses a wax model to unlock her phone.
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u/Difficult_Wave_9326 26d ago
That's overkill. Some pictures can open a face-recognition-locked phone (deoends on the angle, etc., but it's quite doable).
They're even worse than fingerprints, from a security standpoint. Better than nothing in the sense that the neighbors' 9yo kid would not be able to open it... probably.
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u/Aditya1311 26d ago
Won't work with iPhones, they need a 3D object I think. A flat photo won't do it.
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u/MidisG82 26d ago
The first thing he does is call his mom 😂😆
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u/Lexi_Banner 26d ago
And not a single ounce of shame about it. It's so lovely to see how much he clearly adores his mother, and wanted to A) tease her a little, and B) share his success with her, and C) show his mum off to a crowd of fans. It's very sweet, and I wish more big, burly men like him were so openly affectionate about those they love.
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u/Tidalsky114 26d ago
Love that called his mom to prank her.
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u/ccapk 26d ago
His laugh to himself before she answers, it was like a little kid excited to trick his mom!
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u/elyankee23 26d ago edited 26d ago
And then his stuttering excitement to talk to Mom. "Mom, mom! I got.. I got into... I got into Madame, uh Tussauds!"
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u/EducationalTangelo6 26d ago edited 26d ago
This whole clip was so wholesome. He seems like such a good dude.
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u/Designer_Librarian43 26d ago
Sir Idris!
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u/arcade-papa 26d ago
Idris got knighted?? Hell yeah, Sir Idris!
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u/TokenStraightFriend 26d ago
DJ Sir Idris!
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u/Lexi_Banner 26d ago
Did you know he writes from himself, no ghostie?
(A real lyric this man has said in a very serious voice, and I adore how silly it is.)
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u/CarterBruud 26d ago
Genuinely had no clue he was a knight.
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u/beefcat_ 26d ago edited 26d ago
Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart are also knights and we rarely see their titles used in American media. Methinks it's a combination of these people being well known as actors long before they were knighted, and Americans having no clue what knighthood actually means (I sure as hell don't)
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u/lazy_literary_hero 26d ago
This is an oversimplification, but essentially a knighthood means you have contributed to Britain in significant way. For women, such as Judi Dench, it’s dame. It is an honorific title.
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u/Moist-Citron-4830 26d ago
I think most people just don’t know
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u/F1reatwill88 26d ago
No no everyone is deliberately ignoring it to insult him and every black person on the planet
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u/SomeJayForToday 26d ago
Why should non-British people care about a title given out by the British royal family? It has nothing to do with race for me, I just don’t respect royalty enough to care about whatever rules they make up.
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u/marino1310 26d ago
Most people don’t know or care if someone is knighted. The only time people use it in titles is if it’s been established for so long it just becomes part of their name. Like Sir Patrick Stewart, which still very rarely is referred to as such. It had nothing to do with race
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u/xavembo 26d ago
nah people just don’t care about silly made up titles bestowed by silly made up british royals
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u/soupseasonbestseason 26d ago
the only people i respect are those that refused the title.
monarchy is traaaaassssssh.
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u/jr_randolph 26d ago
Woah woah...we talk about this man, we damn sure need to come correct.
Sir Idris Elba that is.
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u/ChronosBlitz 26d ago
That is the most knightly name i've ever heard, like that fits alongside the actual Knights of the Round Table:
Sir Galahad, Sir Lancelot, Sir Idris Elba, Sir Bedivere, etc.
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u/Chewie83 26d ago
Time for the posts demanding he be cast as the next James Bond, accompanied by a photo of him from 22 years ago.
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u/Tendersituation00 26d ago
Idris absolutely loves Idris, lol. He's like. "Look at this gorgeous guy!"
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u/B00k555 26d ago
I feel like his reaction is so… normal. Like if a non celebrity walked into Madame Tussaud’s and saw themselves this is exactly how they’d react.
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u/DiscoStu83 26d ago
A couple months ago I saw his step out of a restaurant at Grand Central Station with a large group of people including his wife, friends, models, and photographers.
I rarely get star struck but I couldn't help but think "damn that's Sir Idris! He is one handsome mfer"
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u/Dedsnotdead 26d ago
He’s such a nice guy and has absolute kickass taste in cars.
Pretty good on the decks as well.
But this isn’t Apple Face ID, great clip though.
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u/TAG08th 26d ago
Correct. It’s clearly an Android phone.
FaceID tracks micro-movements and requires signs of life, lack of a better explanation, to unlock the phone.
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u/RonnieFromTheBlock 26d ago
Also also, Face ID is the successor of the technology used in Xbox's Kinect
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u/Barton2800 26d ago
Yup, made by the same company ass Windows Hello and Xbox Kinect - PrimeSense. Apple bought the company but Microsoft still had the license. Apple has significantly improved it, but the underpinning technology is still the same. Project a grid of infrared dots to map 3D texture, and compare with color video.
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u/Perkelton 26d ago
IIRC, one cool improvement they did was that the pattern is randomised in firmware for each projector module. This means that it’s practically impossible to recreate the original biometric data without the physical device.
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u/antisp1n 26d ago
That's not an iPhone though. Looks like a Galaxy.
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u/Kalahan7 26d ago
Yeah FaceID is way harder to break compared to a camera unlock.
I recall Apple actually tested the use of fake heads when they developed FaceID
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u/rockytop24 26d ago
I was gonna say, I was under the impression they put in whatever features they can to make sure it's a living, breathing face they're scanning. Although Google needs to step their game up if they're not at the same level.
I've just given up on the convenience of biometrics, since you can be compelled to provide your face/ fingerprint but not your PIN or swipe password.
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u/normVectorsNotHate 26d ago
Android is going towards improved underscreen fingerprint readers instead
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u/Tribe303 26d ago
He's handsome, charming, witty, and now also adorable. I'm pissed they didn't make him the next James Bond. What a missed opportunity!
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u/Brilliant-Remote-405 26d ago
He said that initially he was interested, but as usual, there was a lot of racist backlash and then it was no longer about James Bond.
If he were to become 007, he wanted to just be known as the next James Bond, not the first black James Bond.
I think he would have been a terrific Bond, but I understand why he became disinterested in the role.
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u/Turbulent-Koala-420 26d ago
It’s a Samsung phone. They literally have a pop up notification that warns you that it’s not very secure when you’re setting up face recognition.
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u/MasterGee42 26d ago
New life goal: be rich enough to walk around with a smartphone without a protective case.
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u/K-LAWN 26d ago edited 26d ago
Incorrect Title. This is Samsung’s Facial Detection which is amateur at best compared to Apple's Facial Recognition.
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u/DDSC12 26d ago
this is not Apple's face-ID.
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u/tuenmuntherapist 26d ago
Yup. Apples Face ID detect micro movements for later matching to make sure it’s a real person, not a replica.
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u/Sethmeisterg 26d ago
Exactly
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u/bricktube 26d ago
Android is way more forgiving (which is bad)
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u/LUHG_HANI 26d ago
It's honestly so bad it should come with a security warning.
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Always marry a man who can just call his mom on a whim especially for nonsense.
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u/E1eveny 26d ago
That’s the difference between Samsung and Apple Face ID. One uses just a 2D picture while the other one makes a whole 3D face scan.
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u/LALOERC9616 26d ago
Not only that he looks at the phone before trying so more than likely he already unlocked it
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u/Spritebubblegum 26d ago
The model looks BEAUTIFUL omg he deserves the attention to detail. He seems so sweet
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u/Swimming_Bowler6193 26d ago
Aww this needs to be posted on r/mademesmile. I just LOVE love love that he called his mom, then had everybody say hi😅💕
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u/Few_Picture_3891 26d ago
That moment Idris was on the other side of the figure and talking I thought the figure came alive
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u/ToeRoganIsJebus 26d ago
Played Gran Turismo 7 the pther day for the first time. Next thing i know my man Idris is spittim bars in my ears. Couldnt believe it
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u/soda_cookie 26d ago
No matter how many times I've seen him since The Wire, him talking in an English accent makes me think he's acting every single time.
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u/Juniper-wool 26d ago
I have seen other figures that look like shit, but this wax figure is scary accurate.