What is a "Woke" Game

[sundin13]

KLAMarine said:

the-pi-guy said:

Lighting and photochemicals were long calibrated for white people. 

They were called Shirley cards. 

And we still have issues today. Facial recognition technology doesn't get trained on black people to the same extent. And it doesn't work as well, even when they're clearly visible. 

Did Google claim to be a savior? 

There's zero mention of Shirley cards, ad just shows photos with poor lighting in them at the start. Then it contrasts them with photos with excellent amounts of lighting later in the same ad.

As for the savior talk, I'm referring to the whole vibe of the commercial: it feels like Google patting themselves on the back for phone camera tech that solves a problem that really just needed better lighting.

There's nothing wrong with a camera advertising that it is better at taking photos of dark skin. This is a good feature and something that has historically been an issue in photography, and no, it isn't just a problem that needs better lighting. I have gotten professionally lit photos taken like once in my life and even amateur photographers taking pics on their phone don't tend to have a problem capturing my face (I'm white, btw)...

Yeah, the before photos are bad (obviously) and the after photos look professional. Welcome to just about every before/after commercial since the dawn of time.