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title: "Smile Like Zuck · eieio.games"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/smile-like-zuck-eieio-games-682iczgra
source_url: https://eieio.games/blog/smile-like-zuck
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source: "eieio.games"
published: 2026-03-31T12:29:43.214Z
updated: 2026-03-31T12:53:15.432Z
tags: ["react", "computer-vision"]
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# Smile Like Zuck · eieio.games

**[eieio.games](https://daily.dev/sources/eieio-games)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A developer built a browser game called 'Smile Like Zuck' where players match their facial expressions to photos of Mark Zuckerberg. The game uses Google's MediaPipe library for real-time face tracking in the browser. A key technical detail shared is a trick for stabilizing the face bounding box by always cropping to a 3/4 aspect ratio, which prevents the frame from pulsing due to MediaPipe's unstable bounding box output. The project was built at the Recurse Center.

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