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Acorn Pop
09/11/09

In reply to PlayStation Eye Tech Demo Can Make Anyone A Lazy Eyed Anime Girl
Wow. I can imagine how bad you would feel if you walk on screen and it auto picks the cow. :)
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shufflemoomin
09/10/09

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Typical PR bullshit. I fail to see how a computer can possibly detect someone's age. Humans can have trouble even getting into the right decade for another humans age, but Sony claim they can do it with technology? Haven't we all learned about Sony and their failed hype and promises? Hell, haven't Sony learned from it? I'll judge the hardware when it's in my living room, not based on what they claim.
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WhatTheFrag
09/10/09

@shufflemoomin: I don't think it's going to give you an exact age analysis. But since I have worked on facial recognition software algorithms some 7 years ago I can say that if the detection program uses enough points you can make the facial wrinkles and the depth of certain facial lines like around the cheek, the mouth, below the eyes (if it's really good but that needs good lighting conditions and such) and so on. You can estimate how old a person looks but that doesn't mean the actual age. A wrinkly 25 year old would be put in the 40s category and such. It depends on how many points are being taken into consideration, what they define as aging which usually is a combination of x factors and perhaps it takes into consideration the colour of the hair too.

I can say that it's definitely possible but it's not easy and it does depend on lighting conditions and the algorithm.
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Inzoum
09/11/09

@shufflemoomin: Some people really don't know what they're talking about. these are technologies already in application in digital imaging devices (digital camera, digital camcorder, security systems). They're refined to the point that digital imaging devices regularly offer preset settings like "baby face", "group picture", "portrait", with facial recognition for auto-focus. Some of JVC's higher-end HD Everio camcorders can recognize up to 16 faces on the same picture and use an adaptative focus across the image.

These are small devices with small processing power. The same technologies can be applied to a gaming console with much finer calculations, and actually produce viable results. It's interesting to see that these kinds of technologies go back and forth between different departments within a company, paving the way for new types of play control.

This might never find its way in your living room, but then again, a lot of technologies don't, or only will in a few years. My father-in-law worked on developing Blu-ray laser diodes for Phillips about 10 years ago, back when everyone thought harnessing a blue laser for optical storage devices was impossible or not commercially viable. Sometimes you just need to give new technologies the time they need to mature.
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Zorantor
09/10/09

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I bet when you spend all day working on this kind of tech, you start looking at peoples' faces differently.

I can guarantee that that guy, at least once, has been making love to his wife and imagined those icons and diagrams on her face.

Would that ruin the mood? It's up to you, the reader, to decide!
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KuromanKuro Live and PSN
09/11/09

@Zorantor: As long as it is the cow or duck bill it's better... WHAT!?
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Zorantor
09/11/09

@KuromanKuro Live and PSN: Actually, I wonder if anyone will use this tech that way. As in, watching themselves have "relations" on the TV while wearing different faces.

"Why do you always want to do it from behind, honey? Is it so that you can watch me on the TV looking like Naruto?"
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chos3n
09/10/09

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Didn't a Logitech webcam had that already?
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NoBullet
09/10/09

@chos3n: Yes. And its been done to death on stickam.
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Stinkfinger
09/10/09

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It's stuff like this that convinces me that Sony knows what they are doing and, in the long run, will win the console war this gen.
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expansionsss - the jaded gamer
09/10/09

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This "tech" in a nutshell:

Program uses image from camera to detect a face using some algorithm. With a positive detection the face is locked onto, and then the algorithm attempts to maintain tracking while also start its secondary algorithms, to detect facial expressions.

With these coordinates and data, the program then superimposes a model on top of the point at which the face is recognized, making adjustments based upon 3d movement. ( turning head, moving away, forward, etc etc ).

All in all, the "tech" is old, the implementation is substandard, and this does nothing to excite me.
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FatherFingers
09/10/09

@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: Wow, you must use stuff like this ALL the time!
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ottothecat2008
09/10/09

@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: This "post" in a nutshell:

Troll uses mouse on screen to click a link using some muscle spasms. With a negative intention the link is locked onto, and then the troll attempts to maintain attention while also start its secondary intentions, to create scornful facial expressions.

With these intentions and attention, the troll then superimposes a false intelligence on top of the message at which the post is posted, making complaints based upon 2d text.

All in all, the "message" is old, the execution is substandard, and this does nothing to excite me.
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shredmanifesto
09/10/09

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So Sony can make me look like a fuckin anime girl but it can't put a simple chat client on my PS3?
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sazzrah
09/10/09

@shredmanifesto: I wonder if people on this website can ever get through a PS3 thread without whinging that they haven't got cross game chat... get over it already, they'll do it eventually - doesn't mean we can't appreciate new innovations they come up with in the meantime.
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shredmanifesto
09/10/09

@sazzrah: I doubt you understand a thing about how easy it would be for them to do. Read the tech on the Cell a bit over at IBM.

Its like your calling out everyday in the desert for water and Sony brings you tacos. Delicious tacos, sure, but I'm still fucking thirsty. And all the while you can see that there is a flask of water hidden under their coat.
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hodayathink wants WWFRD back!
09/10/09

@shredmanifesto: It would be easy if they had originally programmed it into the OS. They didn't, so it isn't.
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shredmanifesto
09/10/09

@hodayathink is running for president of Naughty America: Ever heard of skype, ventrilo, teamspeak, etc??

Their are a ton of other ways to have VC besides a unified core, software being one of them. *hint hint*

As I said, read the tech.
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hodayathink wants WWFRD back!
09/11/09

@shredmanifesto: To have cross-game voice chat, it has to be running underneath the game, while the game is running. That takes resources (processing time, memory, etcetera). Resources that may or may not be available while a game is running.

You may be talking about plain voice chat, I'm talking about cross-game voice chat.
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(Zombie) Goldwings - Zombie antidote. Attempt 24... somethings happening!
09/10/09

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It had to be a cow... lol
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Curse lily
09/10/09

@(Zombie) Goldwings: Were you hoping for a member of a mariachi band?

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lXXXXXXXXl
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(Zombie) Goldwings - Zombie antidote. Attempt 24... somethings happening!
09/10/09

@Curse lily: I don't get that emoticon. If it is one :/
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Curse lily
09/10/09

@(Zombie) Goldwings: (´；ω；`)
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Zorantor
09/10/09

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This is really cool! This concept has a lot of promise to be turned into something awesome, though I'm not sure just what.
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Gortexfogg
09/10/09

@Zorantor: It could work with MMOs, making your own face control your avatar's face. Other than that ... yeah, it's just really cool.
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Zorantor
09/10/09

@Gortexfogg: Ooh, that would be pretty dang cool.

I'd like to see them implement it on a fighter, or something like that. So you can spam a move over and over and watch your opponent get angrier.
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starscar.exe
09/10/09

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Where was this when the Eye came out?
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/30/09

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FFS, don't buy this for your kids or nieces or whatever -- otherwise in 10-20 years, they're going to be spending huge amounts to talk to a shrink about how they were scared to death of the creepy thing, but were forced to play with it b/c it was a gift from you and they still have nightmares.
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bobtheduck in Korea
08/30/09

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Kids can be afraid of rain slickers and yellow volkswagons, too... I'm thinking most probably haven't developed a phobia to a cat or dog like creature on the TV. It's only adults that have THOSE kind of phobias en masse.
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bobtheduck in Korea
08/29/09

In reply to EyePet Brings the Dawwww Nov. 17
Let's say this... If I'm in the US when it comes out, I won't be in a state financially to be able to waste money on it...

I'm not sure this game will be a large enough priority for me to import, either, and I don't feel like playing it in Korean.
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michaelthegreat
08/29/09

In reply to EyePet Brings the Dawwww Nov. 17
So, um, who forgot to tell sony that we don't want virtual pets that you have to use up our tv with? I mean, don't you have to feed this thing at certain times and stuff? Who wants their favorite show interuped because little suzy needs to feed their ipet?
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Lezard
08/29/09

In reply to EyePet Brings the Dawwww Nov. 17
Those are not Dawwww worthy. They are hideous.
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Shini: R.O.A.C.H.
08/29/09

@Lezard: This post is accurate. I would only play with it if there were realistic fire effects.
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Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
08/30/09

@Shini: R.O.A.C.H.: Agreed. I'd like to draw a torch and watch the thing light itself on fire, run around, and die.

Or a 10-ton weight and squish it underneath.

Or a shark and watch it get eaten (blood, gibs, etc.)

Shotgun... quicksand... vat of acid.

The Monchichi must die.
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Kakuki
08/29/09

In reply to EyePet Brings the Dawwww Nov. 17
My only problem with this "game" is the fact that you need a table... to use it properly.
Btw. the screen to the left is more interesting. It shows some pong-like game with the pet.
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deanbmmv
08/29/09

@Kakuki: You can play it on the floor. in fact the official trailer is two kids playing on the floor.

Wow, spellcheker went crazy there :P Modifiable trailer :P
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Monsignor
08/29/09

@Kakuki: I'm pretty sure a floor would suffice, I'm sure you could scrape up one of those.
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Antiterra
08/29/09

@Monsignor: Up here on the international space station, it's not as easy as you'd think. Damn camera's always floating around...
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zåɳzißårléɠёпȡ
08/29/09

@Antiterra: show off.

next you're gonna brag about playing space jam.

astronaut bloggers i tells ya....
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