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by DonHopkins 302 days ago
It should reflect the colors of pixels on the screen in all different directions in real time, and also cast bright spots of colored light all over the screen, while spinning. The stress test would be to fill the entire screen with many disco balls, over live video. Also a set of colored spotlight and smoke machine emojis would go well with it nicely too.
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Can we have hardware ray tracing for emojis?
And why is there still no standard way to embed audio tracks into fonts? Each Unicode character deserves a sound! And Rick Astley needs to be heard more often...
> Rick Astley

Agreed. Do the kids even still know about him?

Any platform that introduces hardware ray tracing for the first time will do so for the sake of emojis.
Naturally, it should also make all full body emoji start dancing, but only when proximate and with a line of sight not obstructed by a U+99385 SOLID WALL. Specific dance moves are implementation dependent, but SHOULD adapt to the user’s locale.