Face Gestures? Really? Come on!

By Aleksander AasAleksander. Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:10:56 AM

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Opera's known for being innovative. We were never as innovative as on April 1, 2009, when we invented Face Gestures - a groundbreaking new technology where you can surf the web using nothing but a WebCam and face gestures to control your browser.

You know it's a good joke when people believe in it, and to this day we're still getting requests from users on Face Gestures development. PC World however takes the cake with their Your Browser in Five Years article: "Opera Software's free Opera browser--which pioneered voice and mouse-gesture browsing--also supports face gestures through your Webcam. No wonder that major automakers, including Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, and Mercedes, are experimenting with ways to add browsers to cars and trucks."

We wonder if they ever downloaded and tested Opera before writing the article. Anyway, it's pretty funny. If you have no idea what we're talking about, here's the YouTube video:

Hands-on with Opera 10.60 betaBing in Opera

Comments

irczas Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:15:39 AM

bigeyes yikes faint

sirnh1 Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:38:42 AM

So that's why I never got it to work... bomb I spend all year trying different things like placing myself closer to the Webcam, trying a different Webcam. bigsmile

No, seriously I knew it was a joke when reading about face gestures back in 2009. But I would love to see their face though, when they find out it's an joke from 1st april 2009 lol

Adelad3l Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:45:41 AM

yes jester jester

JaredpieRr0Ur Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:50:02 AM

For those still wondering why it doesn't work, it's a NOTABLE prank of Opera software! And I really got interested at their pranks. Infact I'm thinking about adding "Notable Pranks" section on their (Opera Software) wikipedia page bigsmile

Alexislexiz08 Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:52:37 AM

lol

Kai OckendorfOckendorf Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:56:55 AM

Could not believe that people think it is a feature http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL2.gif -

Dan-Raoul Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:38:47 AM

"PC World however takes the cake"
Ikke alle ord og uttrykk høres like bra ut når du oversetter dem direkte! =P

But, have they commented on it yet? It's pretty embarresing to promote an article with that big of a fundamental flaw!

vipin kumarmvk6 Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:58:59 AM

oh my!! I still remembering spending hours before my web cam and/or downloading labs releases for this!! doh rolleyes

Aleksander AasAleksander Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:14:16 AM

TechCrunch also picked up on the story it seems smile

Snapshot Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:35:03 AM

epic joke bigsmile

techlawsam Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:55:40 AM

if you guys make this happen..expect to see the opera browser installed by every automaker especially in the newer fords

Lukášlukaydo Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:15:12 PM

lol doh

Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:45:38 PM

It was excellent joke. yes

Crysta T. Laceycrystalacey Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:51:46 PM

hi

cool doh

cow Town

thobi Thursday, June 17, 2010 2:55:24 PM

after more than a year i'm still laughing about it up

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:01:38 PM

up

Uncle MickMickeyjoe-Irl Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:11:19 PM

Jeff Bertolucci, the author of the PC World article, anytime now:

doh http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Bang.gif -


lol

Yeni Setiawansandalian Thursday, June 17, 2010 4:48:18 PM

doh They took it seriously lol

selurus Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:58:01 PM

lol thats was one awesome April Fool joke.

d4rkn1ght Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:21:47 PM

lol

Angelikiellinidata Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:36:02 PM

lol lol I mean -----> faint

Cutting Spoonhellspork Friday, June 18, 2010 1:12:45 AM

Here's hoping for a Space Edition screwup next time. Or an update on that swim across the ocean. smile

Томица Кораћtomica Friday, June 18, 2010 10:49:23 AM

Hahaha, they edited the article and removed the part about face guestures bigsmile

Luxor Friday, June 18, 2010 1:35:25 PM

PCWorld doh
What an idiot the author of that piece must be. lol

AdrianPMKeldian Friday, June 18, 2010 2:23:39 PM

Hahaha... I can't believe people still believing this joke. lol lol


Anyways, did someone checked out that video response, about some dude working to make Face Gesture for real!

Opera Face Gestures Beta
bigeyes

Томица Кораћtomica Friday, June 18, 2010 4:10:15 PM

Хахахахаха! bigsmile lol yikes zip idea cheers beer jester headbang doh banana monkey penguin cow bug

Panferno22529 Friday, June 18, 2010 9:14:14 PM

I would like it as a REAL feature smile. Itt were a nice Idea...
So, Opera! I want this as a real feature in Opera 10.7x :-)

walterbugscout Saturday, June 19, 2010 6:05:12 PM

jester

Nujin Sunday, June 20, 2010 8:06:19 AM

yikes
great video lol

■lksd Sunday, June 20, 2010 2:08:50 PM

Hi;

Brilliant feature. I guess it can be easily adopted and used also by disabled people who can't use their hands.

Tamil Saturday, June 26, 2010 2:13:04 PM

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/LOL.gif -

Goran Konjevicgorankx Friday, October 22, 2010 3:24:36 PM

ahahaa

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