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So, the answer to "when" would be "never", or "only with a lot of extra time and money, so on rare, high budget games played on far future hardware."

Could a developer create a middleware "facial animation engine", that could be licenced, much like Havok? I must admit that the poor animation of faces really takes you out of the mood - if the art style is "realistic" that is.