DEEP NOSTALGIA APP DRIVERS

The genealogy company hopes this spurs people's interest in family history and inspires them to dig a bit deeper into their own ancestors. With MyHeritage’s Deep Nostalgia feature, your historical family photos will come to life and you’ll see your ancestors’ faces move Deep Nostalgia allows you to animate the faces in historical pictures to create a short video that will feel like your family history is being reenacted before your eyes. The driver guides the movements in the animation so you can see your ancestors smile, blink, and turn their heads.

DEEP NOSTALGIA APP DRIVERS

'I think the response that we’ve seen on social media is exactly as we intended for the future to be, to be one of discovery, one of interest and excitement about history and our family history,' said Mendelsohn. Deep Nostalgia can very accurately apply the drivers to a face in your still photo, creating a short video that you can share with your friends and family. Some people have even used the technology to on statues and paintings before uploading them to social media. 'The combination of all those different technologies are all happening within a couple of seconds when you upload the image,' MyHeritage director of public relations Rafi Mendelsohn said. It's essentially a video recording of a person that's turned into an animation, which is then placed underneath your uploaded image and blended together almost seamlessly. It uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to combine your uploaded image with something called a driver. There are 10 animation options to choose from, and each one has slightly different gestures programmed into it. Within a few seconds, your results appear on the screen of your smartphone or your computer and it shows your ancestors from a still image moving their head from side-to-side, smiling at you, and even blinking at you.

It lets you animate pictures uploaded via the MyHeritage Apple or Google app or their website. LEHI, Utah - We're now able to get a glimpse of what our ancestors were like using a tool called 'Deep Nostalgia.'

Deep nostalgia app