There's been a rise in real-time face-swapping solutions recently, with apps like Snapchat and MSQRD dominating our free time, but Face2Face might be the most impressive take on the tech we've seen.

Face2Face in action.

Also: terrifying.As Gizmodo reports , Face2Face requires only target footage (say: a video of Vladimir Putin from a news broadcast) and an off-the-shelf webcam - and renders everything in real time, after analysing the footage frame-by-frame.The truly impressive part is in how that frame-by-frame analysis means the tech can adapt to movement in the target footage - you're not quite projecting your face onto someone else's, but using your expressions like some voodoo puppeteer.Unlike the apps mentioned above, Face2Face is simply a university research project at this point, but we wouldn't be surprised to see it emerge in commercial form before too long.Check out the full demonstration video below:

Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK Editor and his keenest wish is to have some move his face for him all the time. Such a lot of work. Nod for him on Twitter