Gamasutra got to play with the new Digimask (cripes, they've been around forever) technology, soon to be embedded into a few Xbox 360 games. Presumably you snap a few headshots with your new Xbox 360 vidcam, then up they go, onto your avatar.
This demo technology produced some pretty good results, neh? Although Gamasutra caveats this by pointing out that the demo tech isn't necessarily the same tech that'll ship with the games. Hrm.
(Thanks Cory!)
I used to work for Digimask as a Games Product Manager. Back in 2002/3 I wrote a proposal for them saying we should basically give the technology to MS and Sony for free (or very cheap) to bundle with the (as yet) unreleased Live and EyeToy, as the take-up rate would be huge and would give the (even then) flogging start up a huge uptake and user base. they rejected it, and a few weeks later laid off me and and my whole games development team to concentrate on...mobile phone development. These guys were great as well - we'd ported Digimask to Quake 3 and it was awesome. we used to have these huge games in the office where everyone had avatars with their own faces and it was a freaking blast. I even was on the brink of finalising all the licensing with the boys at Id.
But i'm not bitter.
Posted by: | August 24, 2006 at 18:34
If i take a picture of my arse, will it map it to my face?
What? It's an important question!
Posted by: Cris | August 30, 2006 at 10:18
Yes. Yes it will.
Posted by: | August 30, 2006 at 13:16
Finally. A reason to buy a 360.
Imagine the ph34r in that 15 year old n00b as he stares into my one brown eye before i pwned him.
ZOMGROFL!!!1111
Posted by: Cris | August 31, 2006 at 09:51