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Just as the excitement of the Kinect begins to fizzle out, Microsoft brings even more innovation to the world of gaming with Avatar Kinect. What this new technology brings to the Kinect will give the Xbox 360?s motion-tracking array the ability to track not just the movements of the body and limbs, but now the facial expressions of the user all the way down to the finer tics of the smile. Starting off, the technology will only be coming to the social chatting of Avatar Kinect. It will be used, Microsoft spokesman David Dennis tells Kotaku, to record the movements of a person’s upper body and face and convert it into nearly real-time avatar movements and emotions.”Kinect has some basic facial recognition already built into it for signing on,” Dennis points out. “This takes that and blows that out and makes it more accurate. Instead of measuring a few points of the face. It maps the corner of your eyebrows. the corners of your mouth, the face.”

During the demo, once the software got going to looked to be mapping set points around the eyes. along the eyebrows, and mouth. The avatars with newly-emotive faces will be placed into 15 digital environments with up to seven friends to host chat sessions. The environments, Dennis says, includes tailgating, townhall meeting spaces and living rooms. With this, people will be able to have real-time chats with friends, in an environment chosen to make feel more comfortable online. “The chats can even be recorded and uploaded to the Kinect Share website where they can be instantly shared on Facebook or downloaded to a computer for use on other sites, like YouTube. The current video length limit is ten minutes,” Dennis said. “It’s meant to be a highly connected social experience,” he said. “It could be a single person recording their daily musing or a group using it as a way to capture conversations or conduct a podcast.” With the ability to add facial expressions into games such as the avatar based Full House Poker, we’re extremely interested to see where this goes. What uses do you see for this new technology from the Kinect?

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[Source: Kotaku]

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