Microsoft shows off prototype avatar that will haunt your dreams

@The Only Girl
FINALLY

@zerosuitsammich Yes, to put you in a scenario from 3D Sex Villa.

@zerosuitsammich it will be a good way to avoid nude video chats (and brands appear on shirts).

has potential to let you swear and curse and make lewd gestures, but have your avatar tones these down when broadcasting - so everyone else sees something more G-rated.

@Gimbal You mean like they add the textual options, we speak our choice and the NPC interact to it? That's pretty interesting, imagine Monkey Island with your voice, it would definitely be cool (Monkey Island has no voice when you select some option, just the NPCs speech has). Oh no, now I get it, you mean making the NPCs actually read the text at real time. Yeah, that's cool too, and I don't think is too further in time. But voice acting will always transmit more emotion, anyways.

@SpideyBR In most games the dialog options are not that complicated. In a Rainbow 6 game I can tell my team to stack up on a door, go silent, regroup, etc. That level of speech recognition is already present in some games. But now imagine my team is stacked up on a door ready to move in and I say "Where's my toast!". As it stands right now the game will fail to find a match, or make a false match to a command. A teammate will say "Unable to comply" as a blanket response to a voice command that wasn't recognized, or they may think I meant to regroup.

But in a future game they may look at me strange, then look at each other, before one of them says, "Toast? Sir, what are you talking about?"
Meanwhile a flag has been set in the program that my ai teammates may start to question my leadership if I continue to talk about things that aren't valid to the situation at hand. They remember I talked about toast.

Then I have them open the door as I toss a incendiary grenade in the room. One of the teammates sees the burning body and says "Hey, you were looking for toast?"

Highly unlikely scenario that would require all kinds of word tagging to objects and situations in games for it all to come together like that, but I'm talking about dynamic dialog, not scripted dialog trees.

@Captain Slender

All I heard was Peter trying to speak Italian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JhuOicPFZY