Chrome 70 Dev Release With Shape Detection API

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Chrome 70 Dev Release With Shape Detection API

While Chrome 69 was released last week, today Google has shipped their latest "dev" release of Chrome 70 for interested testers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Chrome-70-Dev-Release

[radeon]

Waiting for the first extension that uses Google Shape Detection to solve Google Captchas...

[coder]

Waiting for the first extension that uses Google Shape Detection to solve Google Captchas...

It sounds to me that it's just exposing capabilities of the underlying device hardware (such as face detection) for use by the web page.

If you want to solve those, I think you didn't need this - you could just write a chrome plug-in. Maybe use a compute shader written in WebGL to accelerate it, or just forward the image to a GPU in the cloud.