EyeToy PS2 Camera To Use Digimask For 3D Faces

Thanks to Gamesindustry.biz for its article indicating that Sony has teamed up with Digimask to allow full 3D models of gamers' faces to be used in PS2 titles, providing the player has an EyeToy USB camera. The Digimask technology "allows gamers to take a couple of snaps of their own head with EyeToy and have them magically remodelled into a fully animated 3D head", and a number of unannounced games are in development using this technology, which might allow "...players to put their own face onto a player in a football game, or to [theoretically] fight against digital reproductions of their friends in online games of SOCOM." GI.Biz does, however, note: "Of course, there is the eternal concern that mischievous gamers will take pictures of, well, other body parts, giving the 'Personal Head Creation' technology a bad name."

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I wonder...

[RegalBegal]

if they thought of actual gamers here. Who cares? The playstation publicly hasn't been doing well (A friend of mine works at a local LameFlop and daily people are exchanging them with games for credit for an xBox). I'm not going to spend any amount of money for a second rate webcam to scan my head, or anything else for a game.

The PlayStation faithful scoffed at being able to put your own music into games with the xBox and certain titles. Now they have to contend with quite possibly one of the silliest things I've seen in gaming second two the Virtual Boy and on step above Nintendo's next flop the DS.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I have a system to play games. I have an xBox because as far as CONSOLES go (I capped it because this isn't meant to be flame-bait for PC gamers to jump in on) it is the best. I'd like to think that these gimmicks aren't swaying the rest of mainstream gaming. Maybe I'm hoping for too much though...