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by 101008 944 days ago
I tried it 4 times. 3 times, I got "the stranged hid their face", which I understood as they weren't showing a face at all?

Anyway, I met with someone for a few seconds and it was a strange experience. No audio, no text, only communicating through face gestures, it was fun :)

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yeah, that message plays if the face detection can't find a face. It's a little wonky because on their end the face detection gets their whole webcam (and then crops to just the face) - but the cropped version is all that's transmitted to you (I thought it'd be deceptive to transmit more). SOmetimes the face detection struggles to find a face in the cropped face. But I thought cutting the video there was safer than letting it through.

Glad you had a fun and weird experience with your other play session. That's certainly the intended experience.