GDC08: Mova's Steve Perlman talks Contour facial capture

15 Comments by Christopher Grant Feb 21st 2008 7:00AM
Filed under: GDC

Remember that video of the Contour facial capture technology we posted the other day? We sent out the Mahalo Daily crew – and their host, the lovely Veronica Belmont – to speak with Steve Perlman, founder and president of Mova, the creators of Contour. Catch up on Contour at Mahalo, and check out their GDC presentation after the break.

Tags: Contour, GDC08, Mova, UE3

(Page 1) Reader Comments

b33eazy: Feb 21st 2008; 7:21AM

I wonder if Gears Of War 2 will use this tech?

Anticrawl: Feb 21st 2008; 8:01AM

I fucking love Joystiq, all the news we could possibly need from GDC, even this things we don't care about or are generally interested in as gamers just in case! Great!

Keep up the good work Joystiq and you will continue to be my blog, news outlet, and gaming site of choice for some time to come. Glad I stumbled across this place that fateful summer of 2004, been a daily if not ever so hourly visitor and vocal member since. Sounds a bit sad when I read the above but yeah, this place certainly brought me back into gaming in a way that hasn't really happened since my Mudding and board game days before and post SNES era.

* = Just so we are clear I'm being completely sincere, and not an ass as I often am.

Jerk Face: Feb 21st 2008; 11:28AM

Agreed! Joystiq is the best video game news related site on the web, hands down. Keep up the good work, guys!

Anticrawl: Feb 21st 2008; 8:09AM

Haha, the interview is so official... "blah blah blah for/from Joystiq." Funny watching a site like this grow up.

What is truely hilarious is how games tout Kotaku.com reviews as professional criticism for their boxes and commercials. No honestly it's funny, in a sad confusing sort of way.

Jonikiro: Feb 21st 2008; 8:43AM

...I think I just fell in love.

Obie: Feb 21st 2008; 9:16AM

Veronica is awesome, google her interview with Leeeeeroy Jenkins for a laugh.

Jerk Face: Feb 21st 2008; 10:03AM

I love Veronica Belmont with every single part of me.

ThornedVenom (Ludwig Defense Force): Feb 21st 2008; 11:25AM

Girls are like parking spots: all of the best ones are always taken. =(

Jack: Feb 21st 2008; 11:50AM

You know who you remind me of? Brock from Pokemon. You melt at the sight of a pretty face. Its so funny.

I'm not trying to talk shit BTW. I do the same thing.

Jack: Feb 21st 2008; 11:52AM

Oh and....

Veronica is a stone cold fox!

Mustafa: Feb 21st 2008; 10:06AM

This is really interesting. Hope Mova manages to sign up some game development studios to use their technology. If they could get rid of the phosphorous make-up and make do with two cameras, their approach to facial feature detection could be used to for more interactive applications. Imagine your next-gen MMO/game character having your features :)
If you are interested in similar tech and maybe even Augmented Reality, I have listed a couple of links to more material in a blog post at http://codesurgeonblog.com/2008/02/feature-detection-with-phosphorous-make.html

Einhanderkiller: Feb 21st 2008; 10:25AM

No video is complete without Veronica Belmont.

why not the LS2LS7?: Feb 21st 2008; 12:05PM

Interesting. I ran into this guy back at Catapult/X-Band back when they invented online gaming for consoles on the SNES/Genesis. Gaming isn't his only thing, but he does have a gaming pedigree.

Lets hope they don't Shaq Fu this one (inside joke).

RobLink: Feb 21st 2008; 3:15PM

I'm just wondering here, if you take a guy wearing a luminous skin tight suit, and covered his skin parts with the luminour make-up, you could have some fantastic full-body mocap, amirite? NBA Live and FIFA 2010 anyone?

The3rdNuisance: Feb 21st 2008; 11:58PM

... what happened to the uncanney valley? Isn't that supposed to be present in video games and CG also? Because, yeah, thats pretty damn realistic. Kinda hops over the uncanny valley. Might just be the low resolution though.

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