But Faceshift already faces competition from major industry players including Sony, which has brought similar facial capture functionality to EverQuest 2 (and soon other titles) through a feature it's calling SOEmote.

With Leap Motion Controller’s exceptionally accurate hand tracking technology, this small box instantly turns your desktop into an unprecedented Hand Motion Capture Station that everyone can own. Flexible and fast gesture capture for forearms, hands and fingers. You can see the results in the video above. A small USB device with big tracking power can be placed on the desktop or mounted on the forehead. An SDK targeted at animators and game creators has been released, though it wouldn't surprise us to see this technology used in other unexpected ways. The developers of Kinect-based markerless motion-capture system Faceshift have updated their Unity plugin to enable users to stream facial mocap data into the game engine in real time. Seeing even the most slight movements replicated by an on-screen avatar brings to mind the top-notch motion capture we've seen in the video game industry in recent years, led most notably by LA Noire.Īnd gaming is an area where Faceshift could present new opportunities to developers. The technology relies on Microsoft's ever-capable Kinect camera to pull in the 3D data it needs to mirror your expressions, though Faceshift's creators have done an admirable job refining the device's face recognition capabilities. Faceshift is a new motion capture utility that does an impressive job of replicating facial movements with barely any noticeable delay.

Faceshift with kinect