Image Metrics, Inc. announced the release of its groundbreaking Live Driver technology for mobile app developers building on iOS. For the first time ever, the new SDK gives iOS mobile app developers the ability to easily integrate the real-time Live Driver technology into everything from character animation, video chat, and user-created content to augmented reality applications, games and social networks. The SDK uses the onboard camera found on iPads and iPhones to instantly capture analyze and replicate the user's facial expressions, gestures and emotions.

Live Driver outputs facial tracking data and animation values for every frame of video at over 30 frames per second, giving users the ability to control their device using their face and head movements. The software is robust, designed to work in a wide range of arbitrary lighting conditions, and is optimized for a variety of appearances, including race, age, facial hair and glasses.