Take your video chat to the next level with FACEOFF: an epic challenge to keep your hands away from your face.
Can’t stop touching your face? Meet FACEOFF: the hygiene battle royale we all never knew we needed. The CDC recommends that you avoid touching your face with your hands to prevent the spread of germs and disease. We all slip up from time to time, but FACEOFF is here to remind us not to. The objective? Simple. The challenge? Extreme.
Our easy-to-install Chrome extension makes not touching your face into a hilarious competition that will keep you entertained (and free of face touching) during your meetings and virtual hang outs. Simply install the extension, launch your meeting, and compete against your friends. Every time you touch your face, you’ll hear a laser sound and get docked a point on the leaderboard. The game will update in real time, announce the winner, and spit out a GIF at the end to share.
5 EASY STEPS
FACEOFF is a Google Chrome extension that is currently compatible with Google Hangouts Meet (Zoom compatibility coming soon; let us know if you’re interested!). The extension is pending approval in the Chrome store, but anyone can easily install it in developer mode with the five simple steps below.
Download the zip file stored on this page and extract it on your computer (just click on it).
Open chrome://extensions
Toggle the switch to developer mode.
Select ‘Load unpacked’
Select and upload the extension folder you extracted in Step 1.
You’re ready to FACEOFF! Once the extension is turned on, you should see a neon play button in the top left corner. Click it to expand the leaderboard and start gameplay. You can also turn it off if needed.
How It Works
The extension makes use of TensorFlow.js - specifically the pre-trained models in posenet.js and body-pix.js. All detection, processing, and rendering is done in browser. Body pix allows us to approximate hand and face center points; if either of your hands comes within a bounding box around your face, we assume you have touched your face. Posenet allows us to pull eye location which we then use to render the logo over your eyes for the shareable GIF at the end.
Share Your Stats
After you leave your meeting, FACEOFF will leave you with a shareable GIF of your gameplay. Simply click the arrow to download, and share your GIF wherever you want (you should convert it to .mp4 if you want to share on the ‘gram – more on that here). Tag us @deeplocal so we can get a good laugh.
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About this project:
FACEOFF is the third project of our “Cabin Fever” series. During this pandemic, we’re applying our creative engineering expertise to some exploratory work. Some of it is aiming to help solve real challenges that the medical community is facing, and some are maker projects that inject a little bit of fun into all of our lives. Like so many people right now, we hope to use what we have to provide others with help, solutions, or just a bit of joy.