While Samsung’s AR Emojis have been said to be the company’s response to Apple’s Animoji, a patent Samsung filed back in 2013 and was granted last week suggests there might be another reason why these exist. Samsung foresaw that bandwidth might be an issue when it comes to video chats or live videos and so the company applied for a patent to use 3D models of people’s faces for video chats. As the patent states, “A need exists for a visual communication system capable of displaying the user’s actual likeness, facial expressions, and motion in real time, while reducing bandwidth.” And since AR Emojis are more or less based on a photo of yourself, who knows if Samsung might be interested in letting people use these avatars for video chats.
Source: The Verge