Microsoft's Face Swap app produces sophisticated results

Swapping your face for a friend's is about to get more sophisticated, thanks to a new app. While the feature itself is nothing new, originally gaining popularity as a Snapchat filter, Microsoft's effort promises to create more realistic results. The Face Swap app also allows you to place your face in different scenes and scenarios found online, a feature unique to the newly launched software. To get started, you just have to take a selfie or choose from an existing image from your smart device's image gallery (left). By combining facial recognition software with Microsoft's Bing search engine, Face Swap lets you to transpose your image into any number of online images. The possibilities would seem to be as unlimited as the search results themselves, allowing you to appear in everything from an astronauts space suit to a taking the place of your favourite celebrity.