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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. Figures... by hookedup · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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."

    I can just see the discussion in game "Hey Jon, how come your smile is sideways....OH DEAR LORD"

  2. Personal Head by rogabean · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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."
    Gamers doing this? I don't believe it!
    Give the "Personal Head Creation" a bad name? Obviously they didn't think too hard about the name they gave it did they?

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    "why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
  3. Won't somebody think of the media? by Txiasaeia · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Methinks this isn't going to be regarded too highly in the press. "Now you can scan your head and your friend's head into the game and kill each other!" "They're encouraging murder because they're killing virtual representations of their best friends!" Etc. etc.

    As for the "mischevious gamers," I don't even *want* to think of what kinda "heads" they would appropriate in a game of SOCOM!

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    Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
  4. Perfect Dark by StocDred · · Score: 5, Informative
    Perfeck Dark for N64 was supposed to include this sort of thing using the Game Boy Camera... but it was removed at the last minute. The official reason was that it affected performance of the game, but it was so close to Columbine that many figured that was why Nintendo had the feature stripped.

    Obviously enough time has passed that companies aren't afraid to include "shoot your friends' digitized faces!" as a packaging bullet point.

  5. 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.

  6. Protect the children! by jmlyle · · Score: 4, Funny


    You know, putting the head of an underaged person on a Lara Croft-type character body could probably get you throw in jail.

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    I have misplaced my pants.
  7. Distraction by aridhol · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Who was that ugly-ass man?"

    "I don't know. His nick was 'goatse', though"

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    I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
  8. The concern about "body parts" is understandable by BigJimSlade · · Score: 3, Informative

    While I don't have a specific reference nearby, an arcade game in the 80's did something similar with a camera for a high-score board. I'm pretty sure a number of players with the initials 'ASS' caused the demise of this product.

    You know the old saying: Those who don't learn from history will do nothing butt repeat it.

    <rimshot />