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."

Comments

Football?

[Acidic_Diarrhea]

"players to put their own face onto a player in a football game"

Great, spend the time getting your face photographed correctly, get it mapped into 3D, save it, start playing a game, and realize...
FOOTBALL PLAYERS HAVE HELMETS ON!!!

This might work for other sports games but come on, football helmets make all this trouble pretty worthless.

And don't get me started on what I think of NFL Street.