{"id":342428,"date":"2017-06-01T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/31\/google-allo-selfie-gif-clips\/21|22119850"},"modified":"2017-06-01T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T21:42:00","slug":"googles-latest-addition-to-allo-is-custom-gifs-of-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/googles-latest-addition-to-allo-is-custom-gifs-of-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s latest addition to Allo is custom GIFs of your face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like Google hopes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/05\/11\/google-allo-machine-learning-emoji-steven-universe\/\">tickling your funnybone<\/a> will keep its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/02\/google-allo-more-animated\/\">Allo chat app<\/a> installed on your phone. The latest update adds selfie clips so you can add a personalized touch to your responses. Essentially, they&#8217;re just looped GIFs made from a video of whatever&#8217;s in front of your phone&#8217;s camera. Allo&#8217;s head of product Amit Fulay <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amitfulay\/status\/869947850116841476\">tweeted the info<\/a> out earlier today, including the GIF below. In the thread, Fulay says that the update is available to all users. Now, it&#8217;s worth noting that this sort of thing has been available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/11\/25\/giphy-cam-gifs-from-videos\/\">via Giphy Cam<\/a> before, but it being built directly into Allo (among the recent slew of updates) suggests that Google isn&#8217;t giving up on its latest chat app just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/96f440e289ff59942dc2168fb9bc1348\/205328391\/natefaceallo.jpg\" \/>It seems like Google hopes tickling your funnybone will keep its Allo chat app installed on your phone. The latest update adds selfie clips so you can add a personalized touch to your responses. Essentially, they&#039;re just looped GIFs made from a video&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-342428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}