A New Level of Creepiness: “Now Miku Could Be Anyone…”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 14, 2012 09:44 JST
- Tags: 3D CG, Controllers, Hatsune Miku, MikuMikuDance, Technology, Video Galleries, Vocaloid
Technology which allows a virtual avatar to mirror the facial expressions of a user using only a webcam has lately been making an impression on gamers – as has the fact that the Japanese researchers who developed it naturally saw fit to immediately employ it in mapping themselves to none other than virtual angel Hatsune Miku…
The rather informative video:
Although Miku fans are naturally more than a little excited, the real impact is sure to be on MMORPGs and other multiplayer titles – promising as it does a great leap forward in how well gamers can expect to interact with creepy guys pretending to be cute girls…
Meanwhile, those whose only care is seeing more of the Miku featured in the video need only head on over to her previous article – how the researchers plan to map her ahegao expression to themselves can only be guessed at.
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Who cares if its a creepy 40yo guy on the other end. All I care about is the cute hot anime girl that Im seeing.
Amen to that.
It's the creepy 40 year old guys that give us our drawn versions as it is.
Exactly. Dude's pretending to be girls online is nothing new.
Yeah, it's a common fact that girls don't exist in the internet.
Yeah, on Facebook.
@Bumpermelon
Only if you like to visit Facebook and various girly sites. There are no women on the real internet.
Now everyone can be a little girl!
i want to be KYOKO-CHAN FROM PUELLA MAGI!!!
We all want to be that little girl.
With the exception of sims and wow, is rare girls playing online .. on the other side on twitter, facebook ..:P Like any good idea is always a group who needs to misuse and pervert!
fuck off back to ponychan
D'oh, there are more women on the planet than there are men...
@Bumpermelon
Old hags do not count as women.
It's funny that in actuallity there are more women on the internet than men XD
This is insanely creepy, but I love this tech.
Otaku never cease to amaze me.
everything from japan it's creepy to you young one!!
I want this in mmorpgs alreadyyyy! XD
I think Everquest was doing something like this but...idk anyone who plays it
dare you guys to tilt your head and cross your eyes for 3D
Quoted Otaku Code "There's noway a Girl this cute can be a real girl"
=> It's a Guy/Trap.
too laggy to implement into a god tier level MMORPG *cough* WOW *cough* and too stupid to implement into anything less -- overall you'll wait about ten years until gaming picks up enough for this to matter. oh and this sounds like wii mote and all the other knock offs, what the hell you guys surprised by?
we still haven't got our god dam flying machines, i'm pissed.
You know what?
I hate MMOs, but once this thing is available, the first thing I'll do is create this really hot chick with big boobs, ass and all. White skin and blonde or black long hair, and give her costumes that'll make her look reaaaaaally angelic and shit.
I'd act in-character for maybe 10 minutes with some random guy, then troll him by completely shattering his expectations by yelling stuff like these with voice pitch turned off...
1. I'mma kick yo ass, nigga!
2. ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT. (for Koreans and Japanese suckers)
3. *sing anything from Eminem's early albums*
Three words, go get laid.
Do you think the majority engineering students (or engineers) are able to get laid until they are 40 yrs old? Not in my case :( ... and 26 years to go b4 I can lose my virginity.
virgin engineer here.
Welcome to manhood.
I feel sad for you other engineers... was I the only lucky one out?
-On an more relevant note:
DOT HACK//ONLINE
AKA: ZA WARUDO!!! (the world <.<; )
Just go to prostitution area and get laid already. Geez ... It wasn't even that hard compared to making something like that ...
Joining the brotherhood!
i know the feeling bro
But I can't be a wizard if I do that!
Dude this will be so awesome...
I would DIE to see the algorithm they are using and the source code of their project... Damit this is just so awesome...
in which century do you live in ? shape recognition and tracking are nothing new
I'm pretty sure my Logitech cam has been doing this for a while now, though mostly limited to the default avatars they provide me. I believe I saw a "Make new facemask" button somewhere.
And to clarify, I don't mean haveing your eyes and mouth shown on top of a 2D image. I mean having the camera track your face and turn it into a real-time 3D avatar.
exactly, nothing surprising here, its just a high performance version of what we already have, people here are just high on hormone levels.
Actually there are many of algorithms for this. And sources as well. I think they not made it by themself, because it's quite easy and many researches was made last 10-20 years. You have to lurk MATLAB sources, I saw some related before.
The trick is it's being done in real time. There's some serious optimization going on here.
its called a solid state drive and a 8 core CPU
our computer speed picked up enough for it to run it and i guess the main thing they have to worry about is debugging
only problem is when it lags, unwanted result will ensue, and mac users will cry cuz it won't work on thier shitty apples.
Dead people can't see. Noob.
I see dead people. Noob.
THERE IS NO COW LEVEL - THERE IS A GOD DAM PONY LEVEL.
I see noob people.NOOBS
FUND IT.
shut up and take my money
Kickstarter nao!
AWESOME.
I think this has great potential for MMOs. Imagine your character mimicking your face for voice chat.
I suppose the downside is that cute girl characters will immediately be exposed as 40 y/o men.
There already is a similar feature in EQ2, though I have no idea how good it is.
It mimics facial expressions not facial features. It wont replicate rinkles and a beard. And even if the voice on the other side is feminine, could be a 40+ mature/old woman and not a teenager. Oh right, there are no woman on the intertubes, just men.
Damn.. that was cool.. Well he will make it big everyone will want to license his technology.
everyone and their mother who works in the industry has already heard about this tech since ten years ago - they just know it would be too much lag to put it in their games and it would be pointless to do so anyways because facial expressions don't sell games - since you'll need to scroll out most of the time to play games that aren't *cough* eroge *cough*