Lenovo's strange camera app lets you alter your face for video calls

Lenovo's strange photographic camera app lets you alter your face for video calls

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Practice you know anyone with a Lenovo laptop who you lot only ever run across over video calls? Well, don't exist surprised if they await a tad different when you encounter them in real life, as all may not be as it seems on camera.

Lenovo has an exclusive camera app that lets users alter their facial features for video conferencing calls. They can adjust their face shape, middle size and plenty more. Then far, merely a scattering of Lenovo ThinkBook models supports the app, so don't wait likewise many altered faces out there.

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As spotted on Twitter by Aggiornamenti Lumia (via Windows Key), the Lenovo Smart Appearance app allows "smart configuration of facial features," which includes softening skin, irresolute a user'southward face shape, altering heart size, the distance betwixt eyes, and even forehead size.

The app also features background blur during video calls and changes the groundwork, although that'southward not exactly new to video conferencing apps.

The Lenovo Smart Advent app is currently sectional to the ThinkBookPlus Gen2i, ThinkBook 13xi, ThinkBook 14p Gen 2, and the ThinkBook 16p Gen ii. At that place haven't been whatever further updates on whether the feature will be supported by more Lenovo laptops.

If y'all happen to accept whatever of these laptops and want to play with the way you lot look (considering that's always fun), the app is completely free and tin can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store.

Samsung recently released its own exclusive messaging app on the Microsoft Store, too, but in that location are plenty of other productivity apps that anyone can download — just in example yous experience a tad left out. And, if you lot're simply in need of a quality photographic camera for video conferencing, the best webcams will practise the play a trick on.

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