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

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2009-06-06, at 23:15, Jan Ciger wrote:
> There is no synchronization at the moment. That is one issue I have
> described on my reply to Argent. If we had that, I think we won't need
> IK for the most part. It would be interesting to have it, but 99% of
> things people would want it for could be done by pre-baked but
> synchronized animations.

Even without synchronization pre-baked animations are inadequate if  
your avatar is even slightly different from the one the animation  
creator built into it. We're all cursed by limbs poking into our  
bodies or floating in the air. Even if you could easily build  
animations *for your avatar* and edit them in-world, that wouldn't  
help people building furniture and the like that has to work with  
differently shaped avatars.

You're assuming a MUCH more complex and sophisticated system than I'm  
talking about. I'm looking at situations where the completely crude  
"left arm pointing to the thing your editing", limited to small  
changes, would produce 1000% improvement in the world.