Sony shows off PS3 facial recognition tech

How about a nice game of Global Thermonuclear War?

Tic-tac toe anyone?

WOW! An idea put forward by sony which has no relevance or usages other than for teh lulz. They NEVER do that...

Project Natal, eat your heart out.

The only winning move is not to play.

@ Wiizer

Why should Natal eat it's heart out? It has gesture, facial, and voice recognition. So far the only real difference between Sony's and MS motion initiatives is Sony's physical controller. I can argue why both would be better for different types of games. (For example a soccer game were the feet are tracked by Natal but not by the SMC. Unless you plan on taping those suckers to your feet... A sword fighting game might be better with the SMC, etc.)

Odog, I wish people like you would know something.

This is playstation eye. NOT the motion controller. It's the eye, you know... the thing without a physical controller? I'm not trying to be a douche or a fanboy here, but from what we have seen so far, PSeye can do what natal does.

The thing is, people like you come in and start saying that the PSEye needs a motion controller. Guess what? We have been playing wiithout our controllers since the PS2 so that has no relevence.

You bring up the controllers, but you have no clue whats going on and that the controllers are a different subject...

@ Araskaz - Actually, Oddog4ever is right. The PSEye is a great device but it really isn't on the same level as what MS is trying to make Natal to be.

The biggest difference is that Natal has it's own processor and software built in.

Yes, the PSEye is shown tracking heads but Natal tracks full body movement using a built in depth sensor ( I think up to like 30 joint points in the body or maybe even more than that number).

Yes, the PSEye has some facial recognition using software that runs on the PS3 but Natal has its proprietary software onboard and a builtin RGB sensor as well... all built in which is important when you talk about making it easier for developers to incorporate while not taking away system resources.

Yes, the PSEye can do some tracking but it lacks the infrared camera that allows Natal to track even in low light sources areas and onboard software that even interpets the player's evironment.

It's cool to see new software developed for the PS3 that will allow the Eye to do tracking but the advantage of having a camera built from the ground up with all this software/hardware for tracking built in and not needing a layer of additional processing power / resources devoted will probably be the difference in some companies taking the time to work with said device.

hahaha yes! that is awesome.

Yep it tracks points on your skeleton apparantley, but it cant do shit for you if you want to sit down and play, nothing like standing up and racing in burnout paradise, after all we all drive cars standing right ? oh and if you happen to be black you might not be able to play..

Also if you happen to want to actually play with Milo, you have to sign an agreement which will allow an MS employee to sit in the corner of your room with a pc and you have to agree to not to ask him any questions about what he is up to..

@scooby: Burnout was a tech demo, the game was already finished - they threw it up within days to show what Natal can do. That was by no means a finished product.

I'm a black guy ( if you cant guess :rolleyes:) and tbh the PS Eye is more likely to lose me in a dark background than Natal is, because it doesn't have the depth Sensor.

Burnout Paradise on Natal was stupid. If I wanted to drive, I would get in my car and go somewhere instead of pretending to drive

Sorry, misread it. Not facial recognition, just head tracking. Both are pretty impressive though.

Yes! I read that a while back. It's going to be awesome to control the in- cockpit camera with head tracking.

I don't sit close enough to my screen to have to turn my head. I just move my eyes. perhaps they can make contacts that glow and track my eyes.

Wait, what? It will use head tracking to move the camera?

How would such a thing work? If you plan on looking over your shoulder to check your side mirror or down to check your shifter...you're looking away from the TV.

Head Tracking really only works with regards to back-and-forth and side-to-side motion, anything else and you can't see what you're doing.

@Space and Bunnyslaper

When you look out a window, do you guys just completely turn your head left and stare at the wall next to it instead? No, you don't. Don't sound so goddamn retarded. If you want to see more to the left, you lean into the right and look in left, like you would a window. THAT is how headtracking works. SO many people think "OMG IF I TURN MY HEAD LEFT ILL BE SEEING A WALL NOT MY TV!!". But that's not it at all. Think window.

@jeezwhiz

nice...

I could eat a peach for hours.....

Your reference was WAY better than what I was going for. And this is why I stopped typing and pressed Backspace a lot.

I shake your hand sir.

...why is it sticky?

Am I the only who didn't get this?

I'm quite happy that a lot of people got the War Games reference though :P

War Games > Face Off

There'd be a Mexican standoff, obviously

if we put you in front of it, however, it will assuredly say "bigot"

Uncontrol a drag queen confirmed?!?!

Similarly, what if a dwarf steps in front of it? Would it think he or she's a child and display cow data too?

Eyedentify was never officially canceled and still appears in many release lists as TBD. For a while I've been thinking that with the push for the PSEye again and the introduction of the PS Motion Controller the project may finally become reality.

Get to Cheyenne Mountain before Skynet activates! TAKE IT OUT BEFORE IT HAPPENS

Screw that I'm building a vault!

Don't believe the hype. It's even closer to Back to The Future 2 time and i still don't have my fucking hoverboard.

For some reason, the voice in my head reading that sounded like Cartman.

bwa ha ha ha @ seeing someone getting punched in the nuts with a hippo face.

childs? o_O

Imagine having sex in front of this. Bring on the butterfaces, I think my brown paper bag is now obsolete!

For God's there are children on this website

I am 12 and what is this.