Kinect Can Read Your Facial Expressions Now

[GreenL420]

With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it's a little surprising to see that there's still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking capabilities to Kinect for Windows through a software update. Which means, Kinect will be able to read and react to your facial expressions.

Act surprised? Your avatar will reflect surprised. Smile? So will it. It's part of Microsoft's new SDK for Kinect which will let developers write Kinect apps for Windows. In Microsoft's Kinect for Windows blog, it says:

Face Tracking Capabilities
Makes it possible to fit a 3D mesh to users' faces and track their facial features and head position in real time using components from the Developer Toolkit. In addition, newly added joint orientation information for skeletons is ideal for avatar animation scenarios and simple pose detection.

The new SDK also adds improved skeletal tracking, speech recognition options and more. Continues to show how much more there is to Kinect than what Microsoft is limiting with the Xbox.

[L-Booma]

I played with Kinect a few times, same for the move. I seriously dont like all these motion things. Thats why I didnt liked the Wii aswell.

shit is far from accurate, compared to a normal controller. Its ok when doing party games when drinking with some friends.

[danny jowenko]

yeah they can video record you inside your house lol

[Makaveli5458]

Looks Good!

[hobomotel]

Camera resolution is too damn low. Feels like a beta product. Version 2 will be much better, could even be integrated in the next console.