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

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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 11:51:22PM -0700, Philippe Bossut (Merov Linden) wrote:
>> calibration. Also note that the videos by MS are *not* demos (i.e.
>> live effective code) but staged shooting.
>
> I didn't want to mention that... but I bet that those videos are
> plain FAKE. Those are actors that trained to do those movements,
> and had to redo them many times before they got it to look a bit
> realistic (and still fail).
>
> I'm sure they got something to work, but those videos are not
> prove of how it will feel or be in reality imho.

The first is labeled as a conceptualization (lower left toward the
start). The second video looks realistic to me. Note the lag and
wobbly positioning. They're not bad, but the first video would make
one think that MS had solved some problems usually solved with a bunch
of high precision cameras and dozens of infrared markers.