The Emotiv Epoc can record the user's face movements. It can record eyebrow position, eyelid position, horizontal eye position, how much they are smiling, clenching their teeth, and how much they are smirking to the left or right side, and whether they are laughing. On the other hand, the Neural Impulse Actuator can only record horizontal eye position, and it records that badly. So if you can make sure those control points are implemented, people with an Emotiv Epoc will be able to use it.
I'm not sure how best to do it with a webcam though. 2008/9/24 Jani Pirkola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Philippe, > > we are exploring possibilities to animate faces. Currently the basic woman > has bones inside face, so she could be animated - then man does not because > we want first to figure out what the bone structure should be to make it > work well. Our original plan was to make that working during the spring, but > we needed to postpone that work. The idea at that time was to integrate web > camera and record user's face movements and overlay them using control > points to the avatar. There seems to be only proprietary solutions to that > so our GPL license for the viewer does not help either. > > Now we do not have exact plans when and who does that work, but it is like > you said; it enhances greatly the feeling of presence and needs to be done > at some point. Help would be appreciated! > > Best regards, > Jani > > 2008/9/24 Philippe Bossut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Hi, >> I've a generic question to ask about rex avatars (tried the same one on >> IRC but no one answered so, trying here). I notice that, contrarily to SL's >> avatars, rex's avatars do not "blink". Actually, they do not blink nor they >> move their eyeballs or move their heads about. This gives very little >> "copresence" to the avatar (no feeling of "being there with someone else"). >> Any idea why this is that way? Was there a conscious decision to take that >> out of the rexviewer? >> Alternatively, I noticed that anims like "breathing" are on... >> Cheers, >> - Philippe >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
