http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBR4cT-0sKY isn't it just awesome.

Looks kind of creepy. I don't know if I ever want that. o.o

He looks like the homeless guy that stands outside the local burger king

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzjsTt_DzCw

i guess we will have that in around 10 - 15 years, hopefully less

Guy looks like a zombie... We need a zombie apocalypse rpg from bethesda with this tech. Scavenge, level, survive, and roleplay

That would be amazing

Pretty amazing. But I saw a video with that using a real-time renderer. About 30 FPS the whole time using a super computer and only rendering a face. That's ridiculous. It will take years because hardware catch up to this technology. But the animations, sure.

This is when games start leading to post traumatic stress syndrome in avid players....

I would not doubt that

DX11 is aging next generation better have DX11 card at least. But again if the next console gens comes out a bad time when a new DX verison releases as the current one did it will still be very under powered.

The video is possible today in games but there is no need for it due to Xbox being locked at DX 9 (not even full DX9) and PS3 using Open GL

Pretty convincing. We want it!

And I would also want the 3d models in Skyrim stopping from intersecting each others... As an example, we see a bunch of foots disappearing in the ground... Weapon disappearing glitchfully in the opponent when the finishing moves occurs..

Did they need to make the animated head so creepy looking?

It's less about how ugly the guy is. More about the detail and animation.

Wasn't Fallout 3 already famous for having glitchy disembodied heads floating around?

haha i saw the ad for mvc and thought you were trolling

Thing about those physical rig mocap setups is that they tend to be fragile.....and expensive to fix. What they are trying to do is come up with a facial mocap solution that isn't face specific. The current king is pointcloud animation. You've seen actors with lots of arranged dots on their faces; they do the mocap close up while the actors act......but the face it can be applied to has to be a digital scan of the actors face ,with either minimal or very carefully choreographed variances. The captured 'dots' are actually deforming the mesh, not moving rigging or controlling morphs. So the structure has to stay almost if not exactly identical, or you get wierd deformations.

Oh, and that Unreal 3 demo, 'Samaritan', wasn't on a supercomputer; it -was- on a computer running 3 560's in SLI mode, I do believe. But the computer the video cards were in was nothing really special. They used the same box to demo the cityscape with all the featurses and fog and tesselated gargoyles.

Please no. I couldn't get into L.A. Noire because of this facial crap. I felt sick to my stomach after watching 3 cut scenes. Please, don't bethesda stick to face modeling... The old and ONLY way it should be done. I want a game not a LIFE simulator.

No, 3-5, tops...

This is actually amazing

I saw this 6 months or so ago on IGN, attaching sensors to the face for motion capture is old tec,

The motion scan tec of L.A Noire on the other hand is very impressive.

What would be REALLY awesome is if the game had proper physics based animations.

It's not a stretch really, even old(ish) games like L4D2 have physics based animations (Although not very good ones)

This honestly isn't that new. They got fairly close to this level of detail in Heavenly Sword, thanks to Andy Serkis's work on the project. Too bad the gameplay was terrible.

That is the weirdest thing I have ever seen.

You can't create custom faces with L.A Noire's tech, making it completely useless for the Elder Scrolls.