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Animation Tool Puts You in the Game
Matthew Sparkes writes "A new technique could take a simple body scan and allow a user to upload it and use it as an avatar or game character. Previously an animator would have to create a skeleton inside the model and describe movement capabilities manually. In tests, an inexperienced user could produce the animations in less than 15 minutes."
/me makes the obligatory joke about how most Slashdot readers would probably not want a real body scan of them used as their avatar in games.
ttuttle is a rankmaniac
When will this technology be applied to pornography?
If I had the figure of a muscle-bound warrior I'd be out partying at clubs and getting girls, not playing WoW. The point of online games is to experience a different reality.
Next step: if you don't actually know how to fight, your character can't either.
In accordance with my latest MRI.
My avatar will bitch and moan and lay down a lot and take pills and flake on people and blame it on his back.
Something tells me that there would be more of a market for technology that makes people in real life look more like their avatar, instead.
In a similar vein, I was thinking that the next iteration of such development would calculate and assign strength, agility, stamina, etc. values for your scanned profile. Either it would encourage a movement towards improving physical fitness, or give birth to a black market for scans of people who are already physically fit.
(Anyone else surprised it was so long before a pr0n related comment?)
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