Get your FACE in games

[speng]

Sony and Digimax has developed technology to put your face on the characters in games.

I can see it now. You create your player in NBA Live 2005 and stick him in.

Socom III taking out your enemy friend on a lan game.

For the first time ever, it will be possible for gamers to incorporate their very own, fully animatable 3-D head into compatible PlayStation®2 games by taking just two photos of their face. Using Sony's EyeToy camera to capture the images, together with Digimask's revolutionary 'Personal Head Creation' technology, the two images are converted into a fully-'muscled' 3-D model of that person's head. The model head can then be saved onto the Memory Card for use in games that support the Digimask technology.
Exclusive to the PlayStation 2 platform, SCEE already has several titles in development that will take advantage of this technology, with the first one expected to be launched in July 2004. Players could become the face of the game's hero, or even have all their friends as a squad in multiplayer games; they could see themselves driving a round of the World Rally Championship or starring in their favourite football team. The possibilities are endless.

Speng

 

[clem64]

Rare was about to put this feature into Perfect Dark using the Gameboy camera until either themselves or Nintendo pulled the plug on this. I guess Nintendo wasn't crazy about the idea that someone could put their classmates' faces on enemy characters and shoot their brains out. Maybe Sony won't have a problem with this. I guess it also depends on what kind of game it's used in. For a game like The Sims online this would be great.

 

[Psychogenics]

It sounds cool.

 

[Freak'n Big Panda]

You can alrdy do this in THPS4... works quite well as long as you can get a pic without hair. Works quite a bit diffrently though, you gotta take apic of yourself with a digi cam then ul the .jpg to a server then connect to the server using your PS2 and your netwrok adapter and then dl and save your face.

 

[pcostabel]

This is a bit different that THPS4, though. It actually creates a mesh in the shape of your head.

http://www.digimask.com/

 

[Deepak]

Sounds intersting

They should also allow to somehow use a photographs as well, just imagine kicking your real world enemies' butts in GTA:SomeBlahBlahCity....

 

[London Geezer]

Cause you keep pictures of your real world enemies....?

mmmmmm we have a psycho among us...