A beauty chip for enhanced video calls on mobile and other devices


Liquid, real time photoshop-like corrections of skin tone and the removal of dark circles.


With the increasing ubiquity of video calling, I thought that we ought to think about something that is a factor in the developed world, the enhancement of human beauty and care for appearance (particularly) during social interactions. If we take a look at how the computer has helped this process already we can see graphics applications like Adobe Photoshop operated by skilled human users touching up and removing imperfections. 


I think the case for digital human beautification is a strong one, after all unless you have scheduled your video calls carefully chances are excellent that you will be caught out at a time when you are not looking your very best. This is where hardware and very good software is the answer using a up-streaming type metaphor the moving images are enhanced prior to leaving the users computer.


Maybe we can describe this new specialist hardware chip as virtual makeup, it certainly would perform the same function in the online space.



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