Star Citizen will have a facial tracking system for the player [VIDEO]

General news News 08/27/2017

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If you speak through the microphone, you will see your avatar pronounce your words.

As a result of the collaboration with Faceware Technologies, Cloud Imperium Games has presented in GamesCom the Face Over Internet Protocol (FOIP) functionality for the ambitious Star Citizen, which allows the game to capture the movement of the player’s face with a webcam and represent it in your virtual avatar in real time, so you can convey words and emotions while playing online.

According to technical director Sean Tracy, this functionality is still in its early days, and its managers are working to [b] improve the capture of movement and reliable representation of the same in the game, although it is already able to capture with certain natural movements such as blinking or tilting of the head or jaw.

We will have to wait for version 3.1 to see the performance of this feature, although Chris Roberts has already taken advantage to announce that Cloud Imperium Games will distribute its own webcam capable of capturing the movement of the face at 60 frames per second at some point. “I’m not going to make promises,” he says with a laugh.

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