Gamer Facial Expression Cloning is Coming

A group of researchers are reporting on a new setup, which could finally result in every facial expression made by a gamer be cloned to the avatars face. The results produced by this method are truly amazing. Commercialization of this could be a big change in multiplayer game’s immersiveness.

Immersiveness has played a significant role in games development over the recent times. Game producers have engaged every possible technique to make the gamers feel deeply involved with the game. Customization of the gaming character (avatar) is one such method, where in the gamer feels more involved when the avatar has been customized to look like him/her or to his/her liking.

Multiplayer games have taken gaming to the next level, as the gamers get to compete with real people in real time. Most multiplayer games include chat, emoticons and VOIP for letting the gamers exchange their emotions/feelings over the game. Consider one gamer wearing extra strong body armor is being shot by an enemy with a very tiny gun. Chat, emoticons or VOIP could not really carry over the expressions or emotions of these players, would it not be awesome to see the player (avatar) being shot – laughing hard in this situation. This should be possible very soon, as a group of researchers have designed a setup which makes this possible.