Forget VOIP, Star Citizen has FOIP that maps your face's movements onto a character i

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During the annual Star Citizen Gamescom bonanza yesterday, Cloud Imperium Games announced Face Over Internet Protocol - FOIP - chat for the game. It means Star Citizen, via a webcam, will be able to capture your facial movements in real-time and stream them onto a character in the game.
A video dedicated to Star Citizen FOIP shows the technology running in the game, both on a character in a kind of test environment - the face of Davos Seaworth (Game of Thrones) actor Liam Cunningham no less - and on characters in multiplayer. Star Citizen head honcho Chris Roberts also demonstrated FOIP in a much longer and very impressive gameplay presentation video.
The FOIP technology - a partnership with a company called Faceware Technologies - isn't perfect, but it does add believable life to otherwise dead character faces, and it's amusingly bizarre when a woman inhabits a male character's body and vice versa.
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