Sony's SOEmote transposes facial expressions and voice onto your online avatar

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When it comes to online role playing games, communicating with other players sadly hasn't evolved much beyond using in-game text chats, attacking each other, and talking to someone whose microphone is too close to their face. Sony's forthcoming SOEmote technology however, promises gamers the ability to express themselves through their online characters in a way that's more like real life. Using any webcam to track facial expressions, head movements, and voices, anything from an elf to an anthropomorphic frog will be able to mimic a player's own actions in real-time... Continue Reading Sony's SOEmote transposes facial expressions and voice onto your online avatar

Section: Games

Tags: E3 Expo, Face Detection, PC, Sony, Video Games

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