[sldev] Body motion and facial expression tracking, Microsoft did it

[Darmath]

Thank you for posting the video links...I'm a university student in a 
non computer related, and very time consuming, field and often find 
myself getting out of touch with gaming and comptuer related news. All I 
can is OMG I love it and I'm so glad i finally bought myself an XBox 360 
earlier this year!

Thomas Grimshaw wrote:
> But they did beat you to it...
>
> What's $100 when you're charging $200 a month for a quarter of a server?
>
> ~T
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> Philip Rosedale wrote:
>   
>> they are using a depth camera (basically a camera with pixel 'radar' 
>> that measures the distance to the image), which we have experimented 
>> with over a year ago (Merov worked with the same camera that is in the 
>> XBox).   Using this camera will require every consumer to acquire a new 
>> piece of hardware that costs more than $100.  Many of the same tricks 
>> can be done using a macbook or webcam, and that is what we are inspired 
>> about right now.   
>>
>> It feels kind of rude to say "they beat you too it, and did it big time".
>>
>> P
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>> Tigro Spottystripes wrote:
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>>     
>>> they beat you too it, and did it big time
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkSV1rXJ0pU
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2r9cKjNQe4
>>>
>>>
>>> I wish LL could buy it and then open the technology for everyone...
>>>
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