Many years ago, I played Medal of Honor on my computer, and you could enter the files and edit the textures and skins. With a lot of expertise and Photoshop, my friends and I had our own characters with our real faces. The truth is that it was a lot of fun.
Unreal Engine just launched an app for video game developers that does something similar. You will not be able to see the characters in the games with your face, but with real expressions. Use an iPhone's Face ID camera to capture an actor's gestures and feed them into the game in real time. Amazing.
Unreal Engine has just released its developer app «LiveLink Face«. This app uses the Face ID front camera of your iPhone to capture the gestures of your face and animate the characters of a game in real time, or use the animations to use them later.
This application uses the iPhone motion coprocessors. If the iPhone is attached to the user's head, it will only record facial movements. If, on the other hand, it is fixed to a tripod, for example, it will capture the movements of the head and neck.
Is an application designed for game developers with Unreal engine. The captures of the movements will be perfectly synchronized to be able to adapt easily to the rest of the game.
With this application you will no longer need an expensive recording studio to capture 3D movements of the actors to animate video game characters.
Unreal Engine is a famous 3D video game engine for all types of platforms, whether on iOS, iPadOS, macOS or game consoles. Unreal Engine is also used in digital video production, such as the series «Mandalorian»From Disney +.
Live Link Face is available on the App Store. It is designed for developers only, as is part of the Unreal Engine professional software suite.
