SOEmote Can Use Your Face, Voice and Expressions on a MMORPG Avatar

Written by: Danny Gallagher | June 01, 2012 at 11:28PM

Have you ever wanted to be in a video game but couldn't find a skin tight Mocap suit that flattered your figure? Sony Online Entertainment has an interesting solution.

The SOEmote can mirror your facial expressions and voice and make them the face and voice of your online avatar. Sony will showcase the new technology at E3 next week with EverQuest II.

The new system takes a person's face points and can measure around 100 expressions a frame to mimic them on an avatar. It can also transmit a player's voice and make it match the character, so a 7-foot-tall fighter doesn't have the voice of a 12-year-old girl.

Dave Georgeson, EverQuest II's director of development, told PC Gamer this technology was made for a MMORPG because "that's what a roleplaying game is supposed to be."

"You’re you for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. When you play a MMORPG, you get to be someone else. Someone bigger than life that can be heroic or evil, passionate or savage, but someone that lets you stretch out beyond the normal RL envelope of life while simultaneously becoming legendary, fighting dragons and demons and saving the world. SOEmote lets you do that in a fashion that you’ve never experienced before."

Of course, SOE's ultimate goal is to expand this to other games to make them even more immersive for players. So far, Georgeson said they have tested it on 40 other titles including Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, Assassin's Creed and Max Payne.

PC Gamer: SOEmote implants your facial expressions, movement and voice onto your EQ2 avatar

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