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EyeToy PS2 Camera To Use Digimask For 3D Faces

Posted by simoniker on from the and-nothing-else dept.

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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  1. Concern?? by Itsik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is it that corporations always try and "shield" our lives from what they deem inappropriate.
    When you teach someone to use a hammer. That person can use it for what it was intended or he or she can bang someone's head open. That doesn't mean that we should not make hammers.

    1. Re:Concern?? by hambonewilkins · · Score: 2, Insightful

      But if that "hammer" is only designed and used to break open people's heads, then yes, we should be concerned.
      There are certain "hammers" that do not have other uses except for killing.

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    2. Re:Concern?? by bigman2003 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Do you really think they give a flying fuck about shielding us?

      They don't want bad press- protests, or worst- Wal*Mart not carrying their game because it is inappropriate.

      The *really* don't care about the social impact. If you are concerned about the social impact, you probably are not running a *successful* business.

      (Yes, of course there are examples of morally correct successful businesses, and many of them are successful because being morally correct is their schtick...money from granolas is just as good as money from the rest of us. But in general, morals and profits don't run down a grassy hill together, hand-in-hand, singing folk music.)

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  2. image recognition put to good use? by BeatdownGeek · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They could use the same image recognition stuff that PhotoShop uses to recognize currency, and modify it to recognize other... Er, heads.