Some of the advantages boasted by Microsoft’s Natal controller are already in the PSEye, Sony said today at the Game Developers Conference in Brighton. Sony has developed new facial recognition software for the PSEye camera which has been put together the SCEE R&D team and other developers.
The facial tech can see the position and direction of a player’s head and can work out the gender and age of the face, and detects different parts of the face including nose, mouth, eyes, eyebrows, shape of the mouth – and even glasses.