A Glimpse Of The PS Vita Facial Recognition Tech

The technology running behind the PS Vita is very impressive, we have already seen marker-less AR (augmented reality) which the 3DS and PSP need in order to achieve. Not only can the Vita do AR without markers but it can also do facial recognition. How far this tech will go, only time will tell.

From a recent article from Famitsu Sony has said they have developed the technology to use facial recognition on the Vita, for example you can chat with someone and instead of them seeing your face, you can chat with your avatar and your avatar will mimic everything you do. Such as blinking mouth moving head movement ect.

Here is an excerpt from Famitsu: (translation by google translate sorry if its a bit hard to read)

Now recognize that technology is focused SCE. "In recognition technology to create new and surprising experience to the game is still an area of filtration伸Bishi" and Mr. Yoshikatsu Kanemaru. The concrete is illustrated in "facial recognition" and "markerless AR" it. About face recognition, there may have been a long time, and technically that is mature and is now also possible to recognize faces 10 years in increments. That emotion can be identified with considerable accuracy. As a measure to strengthen the face detection, and it has been able to detect stable in the face if they call the 3D glasses. In addition, PlayStation 3, in addition to the PSP, and that they are planning to offer versions of PS Vita. 　PS Vita respect, by enabling real-time recognition of a person entered the rear camera and front camera, so facial recognition and high affinity. Eyes and nose, and it can also be detected in units such as the mouth parts. At the venue, as an example of face recognition in PS Vita, was presented a technical demo to do a video chat with each other avatars. Here is recognized by the camera reflected in the avatar of the player's face PS Vita, Unadzui or those that are detected in real time or shake his head. Incidentally, for the opening and closing the mouth, face recognition is currently取Ri切Renai complete, he said that support the movement of the mouth to detect the sound while a voice out. Demonstration of technical terms here, there is no plan for commercialization. However, "For facial recognition, I want to append some of the entertaining" (Kanemaru) they have said.

Source: Famitsu

This tech demo was just that, a tech demo. But they will not rule out the tech behind it. We may not get this avatar to avatar chat feature, but Sony will implement this tech into their games. Hope to see how much further this tech goes, and that the avatar to avatar stays in the final product or maybe an update. We have seen tech demos become full blown games, hopefully this becomes part of the Vita.

What are your thoughts on facial recognition?

My Most Anticipated Game Of The Year

Just like the previous game before it, that has won over 40 GOTY awards, Uncharted 3 is my most anticipated game of this year. I have beaten Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and both have such an amazing story line, it rivals that of a movie. Heck it is a movie in of itself, its more of a Indiana Jones type interactive film. It has adventure, looting, pirates, love triangles, typical bad guy and a few surprises along the way,that is what makes this game so similar to Indiana Jones, and such an amazing game.

Not only am I looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds on Nathon Drake (main protagonist). But also cant wait to see what ND (Naughty Dog) has done to the multiplayer since UC2. When ND first announced that UC2 will have a muiltiplayer portion of the game, I was appalled. I started to think ND has gone the route of putting MP as their primary focus and SP their secondary, thus giving me a bad SP experience. Luckily I was wrong, both SP and MP were ND's  primary focus and it showed, the story was amazing and the MP was up there with Halo and CoD. Speaking about Halo and CoD, Bungie and Infinity Ward helped out ND establish and build the MP portion of the game. That's why it was so fun, active and well structured. But alas gamers didnt really show much love to the MP in UC2 seeing as there was only ever 14k people online giving on any time of the day. Hopefully things will change with UC3. But seeing how Sony has been pushing this game in marketing, I think things will change for the better and more gamer's will be able to experience this wonder game.




Hope you guys are looking forward to this game as much as I am, the wait till release date is gunna be long and painful one. Uncharted 3 comes out Nov. 1st 2011, only on the PS3.

Is Sony Shooting Itself In The Foot With PS Vita?

 With E3 still fresh in our minds some of us must still be wondering, what was Sony thinking with naming of the "NGP". Yes that wasn't the official name but even that name sounds better then "Vita". Oh how they have shot themselves in the foot, and this is just the name, so many other points to follow.

Firstly let me just get this out of the way, Vita really? No PSP 2, no PSP "dos" something anything....instead we get "Vita". I understand vita means life in latin but even then, who is going to know that. And saying vita doesn't really roll off the tongue now does it?  Heck, PSP Go would of been a better name for this. But instead the "Go" name went to the other PSP failure that flopped hard. Sony should have taken the time to come up with a better name, or should of just slapped a 2 at the end. Well that's strike 1 for Sony.

Strike 2, partnering up with at&t. It wouldn't have been a big deal with us unless we were able to choose other carries, but sine its ONLY at&t Sony can go suck it. At&t is one of thee worst cell phone carriers out there. They are the Microsoft of cell phone carriers. Over charging, hidden fee's, bad service and capped internet, all the things any corporate company will do to save every penny they have. All they see is profit and don't give a shit about their customers. So having to deal with them just to use the internet on the "Vita" is abysmal!

Lastly is the price, for $250 (or be it $300 if you want to get over charged up your ass by at&t by using 3G) is way to expensive. Strike 3 for Sony, your out! I would rather get the 3DS the better handheld for that price. Not only does the "Vita" not have an internal HDD which who knows how much is going to cost to get an external memory, but it also doesn't have 3D like the 3DS does. The "Vita"  may be more powerful then the 3DS, but look what happened with the DS and the PSP. The DS had the better games while PSP barley had anything, history will repeat itself  once again since the "Vita" as of now doesn't even have any good games if any at all. Its mostly going to get console ports just as the PSP did. While the 3DS will thrive with fun innovative 3D games. On a side note I didn't even talk about the size of that thing. But I can leave that for another day.

Let's recap shall we? The name, horrible. Patterning up with at&t, stupid. The price, might as well get the 3DS. You may disagree with my views but seeing how the PSP Go flopped and how the PSP and DS turned out. What makes you think this time its going to be any different?