Developer Peder Norrby is using an iPhone X with ARKit and face tracking to create some pretty cool special effects. Watch the video below for details. See also the trompe l’oeil Wikipedia page, which shows off the original artistic effect, which fools the eye into thinking it is seeing 3D.

Here’s a painting (Escaping Criticism by Pere Borrell del Caso, 1874) that really pulls this off:

Norrby is planning on releasing his work as a free app and making his source code public. Nice.