PlayStation Vita Facial Recognition Tech Demo Shows Video Chat With Avatars

By Ishaan . June 30, 2011 . 12:02pm

Sony recently attended the Game Tools & Middleware Forum 2011 in Tokyo, where they demonstrated face recognition technology being developed by them, in the form of a tech demo. The upcoming PlayStation Vita will be able to make use of this.

The video chat tech demo above demonstrates some of the technology’s features, with two people using their avatars to communicate with each other. Sony also showed off a brief augmented reality video at the event. You can watch this over at 4Gamer, who were in attendance at the forum.

Kinect Portable?!

The Tiger looks cool, but the doll is just scary. As usual with Sony's dolls.

Looks cool. I wonder where developers will go with it.

wow looks a lot like kinects avator chat except it isn't placing you in a new environment... i wonder if all of these features they're showing now will be available at launch

i was so thinking the same thing.

not sure why i'd use it (milo on PSVita lol). o yea chatting!

That looks super awesome

Awesomenesssssssssssssssssss!!!!

added info and vid to official thread also


it looks very impressive :)

so they have made so graphical improvement to the vision library?  they didnt use it with the ps eye lets hope vita has more luck

so they have made some graphical improvement to the vision library?  they didnt use it with the ps eye lets hope vita has more luck

edit: lol sorrytried to add the vid as a picture, hmm were did the icon go for adding vids?

just going to give you a link. for now until I rework this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOtPVof2K94