Sony's PSEye Will Get Facial Recognition - News

Lulz @Tor.

But wtf... this may backfire... anyone wanna guess why?

@Keep_the_change

More like about the same time frame for both, and I wouldn't be surprised if it took Sony longer to release. Microsoft had a finished product with multiple tech demo's ready. Sony had an "early prototype" with one demo....

They have to give the PSEye a makeover, make it so that it can clip ontop or on the bottom of a flat screen tv

Now, if only they can add "works without a dedicated spotlight placed overhead" technology or "recognizes those cards for the game it came with" technology, this thing could be friggin' sweet.

Mine (along with the 360 Camera) have been gathering dust in a box for ages now. Neither was worth a damn.

microsoft does overpromises, vista had tons of features removed, to this date never added.

for sony reason, i find easy to believe sony will do it better and without bugs and microsoft won't XD.

nice, right now i use my pseye just for lbp and the eye of judgment
this and eye pet will help me to use this device more :P

Nobody cares about facial recognition BS, nobody cares about motion crap shit, no one cares, just give me GT5.

@ KeptoKnight

Being "soon" a time frame of 1 year or two for the case of Natal.

i forgot that sony and microsoft are coming out with their own motion controls soon.

Wish they would just improve the crappy video quality. And considering that it is made to work with "the ultimate HD device", shouldn't it support HD and 16:9 video? Not a well thought out peripheral.

Just watched a you tube showing the Eye Toy performing lots of the things we saw with Natal. The difference of course even though this video was from November 2007 it is still only a video and not reality.

Where as I do not doubt that some form of facial recognition will be made avaialble to the eyetoy how effective it will be is in doubt.

The Natal solution has more technology inside to produce an allround better solution. I think Sony probably were on the right track but moved away from the eyetoy and focused on developing the wands.

Lets not forget the jury is out as to which system will actually be better. Technically at the moment I think Natal has it but when we actually have both the solutions it may be that the wands were actually the better way to go.

@disolitude
maybe the reason is that you don't own a ps3?

I recently tested out the PSEye, but it gave me a response I didn't like....all the screen said was "even a caveman can do it."

Man sony loves to promise things. As loon as xbox live was announced in 2003, sony announced an online network partnership with AOL "far greater" than xbox live. Its 6 years later and we're still waiting...

the difference is that MS shows when they promise, sony just announces stuff.

Noooo!! It's obviously fake!!! Only Natal can do it. That's what users say here. So it's true. Sony is lying... again.

@Kantor

Or let it recognize Ash Crimson (already done it myself :-D )

Hah, I can't wait for all the reports of people whose genders have been misrecognized! That's going to be fun.

leo-j, that's the point. They've developed new SW to better support the existing EyeToy with facial recognition, etc.

I always felt the damn thing was terribly under supported in terms of SW and dev kits, but I guess between Wii Mote and Natal its going to see a fair bit of investment going forward.

I have one, BTW, for LBP (just love sticking my own images, etc. into levels). It works well but the available titles don't do it's potential justice.

I thought it was already capable of that, just needed the software..

(atleast sony is doing something about the PS eye, it was a very important thing, but they stopped supporting it in 07)

ohhh this thing still exist?

The person's gender, eh?

We should play a JRPG and make the camera face it :-D

didn't they have this long ago?
Sony is just "Reminding" people about it. :-D