{"id":1405,"date":"2014-10-06T00:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:28:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T07:28:52","slug":"talk-to-your-20-years-older-self-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/06\/talk-to-your-20-years-older-self-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk to your 20-years-older self right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather bizarre site called <a href=\"https:\/\/futureself.orange.com\/\">Future Self<\/a>\u00a0captures a picture of you via Webcam. Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2014\/10\/04\/site-uses-webcam-facial-recognition-cgi-show-youll-look-like-20-years\/\">per PetaPixel<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The site then analyzes that picture using facial recognition and puts it through an aging simulator to spit out a version of yourself that is 20 years older\u2026 and in my case British\u2026 so that was weird. I know he was British because, not only does this spit out a picture of your future self, it lets you talk to the guy or gal via webcam using Google speech recognition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Impressive stuff, though as to <em>why<\/em>\u00a0all of this is a good idea, I\u2019m a bit stumped.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBAQinh6hsc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBAQinh6hsc\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather bizarre site called Future Self\u00a0captures a picture of you via Webcam. Then, per PetaPixel, The site then analyzes that picture using facial recognition and puts it through an aging simulator to spit out a version of yourself that is 20 years older\u2026 and in my case British\u2026 so that was weird. I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}