Xbox 360 Camera Demo'ed

[Jaz]

Well finally the Xbox 360 camera has been shown off, and it looks a lot better than I had expected it to be - certainly a league and a bit ahead of the crappy Sony Eye Toy.

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.

Out of all the features, it's the digi-mask that looks the coolest. Check it out.

"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."

How awesome is that! If game developers use this to allow the user to put themselves into their favourite game, that would be cool.

Imagine playing games like Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon actually with your friends - awesome!

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.

Gimmie!

 

[Martin]

Nice. I like that face import thingy.

 

[WhiteX]

So do I, imagine that, A true WhiteX, dark lord of the Sith!

 

[Stezo2k]

wow, i didn't expect a digimask type app, i wasn't gunna get the 360 camera but due to that i'll probably be getting one

oh the possibilities *drools* playing as yourself online would be a great feature

 

[Jaz]

It certainly has alot of potential.

 

[WhiteX]

Also to be misused, you may very well be playing online with a dick, literally.

 

[Trotterwatch]

Hot Coffee mod with ME the star Awesome.