Face over IP - very cool.

[Floating Cloud]

Intro to face over IP

View: https://youtu.be/bCtdyNFwQWo?t=25m34s


For those who haven't watched, this introduces us to a brand new feature where via your webcam SC is able to sync your character features to your actual face. So when you smile, your character smiles. When you look left, your on-screen viewpoint swivels to match. That along with the character lip sync that matches your VOIP, directional audio, volume levels that fade and rise as characters change distance from you - all of these features will add a huge level of immersion.

Fantastic.

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Major edit:

This works best with the custom camera produced by facetech, so I've amended this post to reflect that and deleted my closing paragraph (I'd originally planned to get a cheap webcam).

 

[Blind Owl]

Fucking amazing and awesome and cool and badass!

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

Holy baby Jesus wtf Chris R!
Invasion of Privacy!
You guys are just going to see me cross eyed and constantly looking up, and what's actually happening is I'm getting drunk and it looks like my Character is staring at the roof.

 

[supitza]

That has to be the creepiest feature I've ever seen in a video game.

 

[Blind Owl]

Holy baby Jesus wtf Chris R!
Invasion of Privacy!
You guys are just going to see me cross eyed and constantly looking up, and what's actually happening is I'm getting drunk and it looks like my Character is staring at the roof.

You mean masturbating . . .

 

[Floating Cloud]

You mean masturbating . . .

Good point. I'm saying it now, i don't want to see an 'O' faces.

:wink:

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

Good point. I'm saying it now, i don't want to see an 'O' faces.

:wink:

That's exactly when I'm afraid of.
"Hey CrudeSasquatch, why ain'tcha firing that gun?"
":) :O :O :O :O :D"

 

[Blind Owl]

That's exactly when I'm afraid of.
"Hey CrudeSasquatch, why ain'tcha firing that gun?"
":slight_smile: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :smile:"

haha, that face though . . .

 

[CrudeSasquatch]

haha, that face though . . .

 

[Blind Owl]

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HARRY!

 

[marctek]

That is pretty cool but will we be able to use the face of the Onion Knight in game?

 

[Ammorn]

FOIP sounds funny and reminds me of something.

 

[Bruttle]

I think the system is amazing. The level of immersion that they are shooting for is amazing. However... I want to see this game released before it is obsolete. As far as I have found, foip was never even a stretch goal. Is it cool? Absolutely. Is it groundbreaking? Fuck yea it is. The problem is though, they have their hands full just fulfilling what they have already promised. We're what, 2 years away from release at the very best? It will be much longer than that if they keep getting side tracked.

Don't get me wrong. I am absolutely 100% in favor of pushing the boundaries. I want to see this game reinvent the limitations of a MMO. However, I do think they need to concentrate on what's already on their plate. If you can tell me that things like this aren't pushing the release date even further into the future, I will shut up and simply enjoy it. When I watched it though, the first thought in my head was that they were getting off track. This feeling was made even worse by watching all the bugs and problems with the 3.0 live demo. Honestly, you can't even drive a car up a ramp, but you can spend the last year working on facial tracking?

Let me ask you this, in todays mmos what percentage of players can you get on to voip. Out of that percentage, how many will actually respond verbally. Now ask yourself, what percentage of players will buy a special webcam and actually use it for face over ip?

 

[Stevetank]

Lol, we're always at 2 years from release. I think this face thing is worth it. They already had 90% of the technology done from their facial animations they did for the actors. May as well go the extra mile at that point.

 

[CosmicTrader]

Fucking amazing and awesome and cool and badass!

Indeed.

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Hey, you can't show my face here.

 

[Floating Cloud]

Honestly, you can't even drive a car up a ramp, but you can spend the last year working on facial tracking?

Let me ask you this, in todays mmos what percentage of players can you get on to voip. Out of that percentage, how many will actually respond verbally. Now ask yourself, what percentage of players will buy a special webcam and actually use it for face over ip?

This is outsourced, so it's costing them money but not much in the way of time. As to takeup, I'd guess a pretty high number of the hardcore players will use it. Remember that the fancy schmancy camera is optional, it works with standard webcams, just not as well (for example you would need the subject to be lit rather than relying upon light from the monitor).

I am a little surprised that they didn't go for voice/lipsync like they do at realillusion (https://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/) where the lip movement is done from the sound rather than from camera input, but I'm sure that they have their reasons.

 

[Blind Owl]

Lol, we're always at 2 years from release. I think this face thing is worth it. They already had 90% of the technology done from their facial animations they did for the actors. May as well go the extra mile at that point.

Concur.

 

[Maxgerber5250]

This is outsourced, so it's costing them money but not much in the way of time. As to takeup, I'd guess a pretty high number of the hardcore players will use it. Remember that the fancy schmancy camera is optional, it works with standard webcams, just not as well (for example you would need the subject to be lit rather than relying upon light from the monitor).

I`m going to try my new Samsung 360 camera. I don`t know if it will work as good, but it can`t hurt to try.

 

[Mich Angel]

I think this is amazing and what ever they are doing is right on game breaking new all of it and I'm all in... let's ROCK!

 

[Michael]

There is supply no point in discussing about this.
Imagine glorious leader in a compared to his gloriousness small hologramm of 500 m size speaking in his wonderfull voice to us.
While is wonderful smile is looking down on us, giving manguided torpedos Auroras to lead us to our victory.