Smiling in face of tech updates

OUR face can unlock a smartphone, provide access to a secure building and speed up passport control at airports, verifying our identity for numerous purposes.

An international team of researchers has taken facial recognition technology to the next level, using a person’s expression to manipulate objects in a virtual reality setting.

In a world-first study led by the University of Queensland, human computer interaction experts used neural processing techniques to capture a person’s smile, frown and clenched jaw and used each expression to trigger specific actions in virtual reality environments.