Galaxy Note 8 AR Emoji: How do you access it, and is it any good?

Concluding updated: September 13th, 2018 at fourteen:23 UTC+01:00

In an interesting turn of events, Samsung has released a new software update for the Galaxy Note 8 and brought over two unique camera features from the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy Notation nine. One of them is AR Emoji and the other is super irksome-mo videos, although it's called Super Deadening-movement on the Notation eight. While Super Slow-motion seems to work well enough, we thought we'd requite AR Emoji a try on the Annotation 8 and run into how it compares to AR Emoji on the Galaxy Note 9 and Galaxy S9.

Galaxy Note viii doesn't get full AR Emoji functionality

The Galaxy Notation 8 has received a stripped down version of AR Emoji. Actually, scratch that. The Note 8 gets all the customization options for your AR Emoji avatar, but you lot tin can't take AR Emoji pictures in real-fourth dimension. You first take to let the camera accept your photograph before it can be converted into your digital likeness. And that conversion process is rather slow, which is a bit disappointing (and surprising) given the 2017 Milky way flagships weren't exactly lacking for power.

It doesn't aid that AR Emoji is a software trick that doesn't really work that well even on the Galaxy S9 and Note 9. The Galaxy Note eight will probably non get any of those Disney emojis, either, although only time will tell if that is really going to be the instance. Futurity updates might improve things a flake, but right now, using AR Emoji on the Galaxy Notation viii is almost a laborious process.

Y'all'll besides not exist able to easily discover how to admission AR Emoji on your Milky way Annotation 8 once you take installed the software update, equally it doesn't go a dedicated camera mode. But that's why we're here, so follow the instructions below to go started with AR Emoji.

How to access and use AR Emoji on the Milky way Annotation viii

Footstep 1: Open up the photographic camera app, so tap the Stickers pick.

Step 2: Tap the Create My Emoji button.

Step 3: You lot will then be taken to the Galaxy Apps store to download the My Emoji Maker app, which is a one-time thing. Hit the Install button, and one time installation finishes, hit the dorsum push button to get back to the camera app.

Footstep four: Now, tap the Stickers selection over again, followed by Create My Emoji to start creating AR Emojis.

You tin can now create an AR Emoji of yourself. Yous will need to take a selfie before you get to customize the final wait and feel of your avatar. You tin also switch to the rear photographic camera to take a motion-picture show of someone else. For more details on how AR Emojis can be created and customized, check out this article.

Have yous received the new Galaxy Annotation 8 update with AR Emoji withal?