http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/sony-playstation-eye-to-get-facial-recognition Discuss Gadgets! en-US Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:21:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://discuss.slashgear.com/search.php http://discuss.slashgear.com/topic/sony-playstation-eye-to-get-facial-recognition#post-206 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:08:15 +0000 Chris Davies 206@http://discuss.slashgear.com/ <blockquote><p>Sony have <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24456" target="_blank">revealed plans</a> to add facial recognition capabilities to their PlayStation Eye webcam, potentially stealing part of Microsoft&#8217;s Project Natal thunder.  According to Kish Hirani, Sony Europe&#8217;s head of developer services, the functionality will soon be added to the existing hardware, with developer libraries available for games studios so that they don&#8217;t need to exert effort specifically coding for the new system.</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-49669" title="playstation_eye_webcam" src="http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/playstation_eye_webcam-526x540.jpg" alt="playstation eye webcam 526x540" width="526" height="540" /></p> </blockquote> <p><br/><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/sony-playstation-eye-to-get-facial-recognition-1749668/">Sony PlayStation Eye to get facial recognition</a></p>