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by 333c 2568 days ago
Too much effort. Just print out a picture of a person with open eyes.

At that point it's really just the honor code that holds us to honesty.

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Add heartbeat detection to verify the person is alive. [1] has one example, Google "use webcam to detect heartbeat" to find more.

[1] https://github.com/thearn/webcam-pulse-detector

Add gaze tracking and have people look at a randomly moving dot.
While entering captcha codes every 10 seconds
This is so useful!
Measurement of other minute facial feature movements besides blinking to detect whether it's a real person vs picture or other video?
I think we've just discovered the real use for Apple's Face ID. Staring contest video games.