Report, edit, etc...Posted by n2o-SiMpSoNs on 2006-03-16 at 20:21:54
We received some exclusive images this morning of the "Xbox Live Camera Demo Station" at Microsoft's recent XFEST event, held in Bellevue, Washington last month. Our tipster sent in shots and descriptions from the three different demos on display at the event: "Xbox Live Camera Video Chat", facial mapping software from digimask, even a tank game that incorporates video into the game! More below the fold.
"One use was for general video chat via the Dashboard. You can see how the camera digitizes the image and create a real time cell-style 'drawn' version. Kind of an interesting effect, most impressive was just the video quality and refresh rate."
"Another slick use was with a piece of software called Digimask. With Digimask the user takes a head-on and profile shot of their face then, using some basic icons, defines the characteristics of their head."
"Things like wearing a baseball cap, having a pony tail, long hair, basic shape features, etc.. Once you have a rough shape of your face the 360 spends a couple minutes processing it all and voila, instant in-game character of your own likeness."
"The whole process takes less than 5 minutes with very good results. You cannot see it animate in the photos but you can open and close the mouth, wiggle the ears, and move the rest of the face around in realtime."
"The last use they showed was a tank style game where you could see your opponent mapped onto the console of the tank. It's some wacky chick in the picture."
He said they didn't show off any features that used two cameras in tandem to analyze movement, Microsoft's so-called "Project Vision" and he said the release would most likely be fall "for some reason." It appears they've settled on the smaller camera as well, as opposed to the larger one we'd seen previously.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by KaboomHahahein on 2006-03-16 at 22:52:19
It is pretty cool how they don't just stick your image there but digitizes it and make it open close mouth and simple animations.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by RedNara on 2006-03-16 at 23:23:20
yes interesting... I wonder what its really used for though... i didnt read what you posted becuase i saw that in IGN and i feel to lazy right now...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Snipe on 2006-03-17 at 11:56:53
lol that is intense! i didn't know 360 had that capability. See i still wouldn't buy it but that is some cool stuff.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kyuubi. on 2006-03-17 at 15:16:59
you guys are be pretty rich buying all the hardware and the camera. i won't buy it, but the camera is impressive for it though, would like to see someone playing with that in a game.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Deathawk on 2006-03-17 at 15:21:35
Haha, that's cool. Too bad I don't have an XBox 360.
It'd be cool playing with my head in Quake 4, or whatever games they have on Xbox 360.
Anyway, do you have any informantion on how much it would cost? Any rumors, or anything?
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It'd be cool playing with my head in Quake 4, or whatever games they have on Xbox 360.
Anyway, do you have any informantion on how much it would cost? Any rumors, or anything?
(POST YOUR SOURCE)
Report, edit, etc...Posted by olaboy- on 2006-03-17 at 16:25:12
Oh wow it looks like they copied the PS2 camera...
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Sunburst on 2006-03-17 at 18:46:28
thats pretty cool : ) i wish i had X-box 360 i would b pwning n00bs on CoD LOL! its true.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by n2o-SiMpSoNs on 2006-03-18 at 08:57:39
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Oh wow it looks like they copied the PS2 camera...
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The ps2 camera was stupid. lol It didn't do the same things as this one will.