{"id":31433,"date":"2018-03-20T20:48:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=31433"},"modified":"2018-03-20T20:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:48:16","slug":"disney-characters-brought-to-life-on-samsung-galaxy-s9-and-s9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/03\/20\/disney-characters-brought-to-life-on-samsung-galaxy-s9-and-s9\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney characters brought to life on Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Samsung Electronics and Disney are bringing Disney characters to life as new AR Emojis for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. Starting today, Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ users will be able to access Disney characters \u2013 Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse \u2013 directly from their phone to create personalized messages. Characters from favorite Disney films including\u00a0<i>The Incredibles<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Zootopia,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Fro zen<\/i>\u00a0will roll out throughout the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Samsung.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Samsung.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Samsung.jpg 622w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Samsung-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy extending our characters and stories to new digital platforms, we are creating daily Disney experiences everywhere our audience goes, and we are able to draw in new generations of fans,\u201d said John Love, VP, apps at Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith more than six billion emojis sent daily, our goal with developing AR Emoji was to provide a fun, exciting way to communicate and a new way to bring animated images to life,\u201d said Younghee Lee, CMO and EVP of Samsung Electronics. \u201cWe knew there was no one better to partner with than Disney \u2013 creator of some of the most beloved characters in history \u2013 to make our AR Emojis the happiest faces on earth and give our users access to the most popular characters to share with friends across platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beginning on March 16, users with Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones can download Disney characters from the AR Emoji mode on their camera.<\/p>\n<p>Launching alongside the Galaxy S9 and S9+, AR Emojis allow users to create customized messages to send to friends. The AR Emojis use deep learning and facial recognition technology to map more than 100 facial features to produce a 3D replica. AR Emojis offer 18 pre-set stickers using standard AGIF file format. The AR Emoji can also be pinned on the Always On Display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics and Disney are bringing Disney characters to life as new AR Emojis for the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. Starting today, Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ users will be able to access Disney characters \u2013 Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse \u2013 directly from their phone to create personalized messages. Characters from favorite Disney films including\u00a0The Incredibles,\u00a0Zootopia,\u00a0and\u00a0Fro zen\u00a0will roll out throughout the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[302,2479,4327,5844,359,201],"class_list":["post-31433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","category-headlines","tag-apps-2","tag-disney","tag-emoji","tag-galaxy-s9","tag-samsung","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}