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Comment by kgodey | Hacker News Reader

This happened to me in a recent work meeting, we were using Google Meet and suddenly the video had a huge animated thumbs up emoji dancing across the screen.

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If I’m understanding the feature you’re talking about, that’s not an automatic reaction based on expressions (like this article/feature). That was shown because someone clicked the thumbs up emoji on their Meet UI.

I think these are completely different things.

I’m pretty familiar with the Meet UI thumbs up feature and this was not it. The other person didn’t take any action other than making a actual thumbs up with their hand. They were confused by the visual as well and it distracted us from the call enough that he ended up investigating and it turned out to be the new Apple feature.

Edited to add: FWIW they were on the latest macOS and I wasn’t.

Apple’s new filters and animations work against any software using the webcam. Including Google Meets via your web browser.

That’s the problem with this new feature. It’s on by default and alters the feed for other software.

It’s not all bad though. The filters are actually pretty nice. But expressions, on the other hand, get accidentally triggered often and really shouldn’t be gesture operated (or at least disabled by default)

I tested in google meet last week, it does not work there.

I dont know how you missed this in your tests but I’ve literally had it unintentionally activate on myself and other colleagues in Google Meets.

Saw thought bubbles in gmeet a week or so ago.

maybe it's a firefox thing? I am on google meet right now and I've literally tried several things and it does not work. But still, clearly it does not automatically work in every application, as I took the time to open several different apps and test which ones it worked in.

Actually if it was huge it’s likely because several people clicked the thumbs up in short succession. It plays a different animation in that case.

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