Awesome! This requires just a camera and some software. How long until Microsoft or Sony buys this tech and puts you in the game?
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3D Face Modeling Software Generates Your Visage With a Single Photo and Old Data – Annotated
Put yourself in the video game
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At Waseda University, researchers are developing a 3D face generation process that requires no special equipment. It combines 3D measurement data from thousands of faces with a single photograph to extrapolate what your features will look like, cheaply and quickly.
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By: Make a 3D model from a Picture of your Face « Education Stormfront online university on September 22, 2010
at 2:00 pm
Imagining how this could be used in education. Would be so neat to have historical games where students became the characters they were learning about.
By: ktenkely on September 22, 2010
at 2:46 pm
Oh would really engage students to be able to see themselves in a historical game. It’s closer than we realize!
By: crudbasher on September 23, 2010
at 11:26 am