(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The concept of motion-tracking and its use within the world of console gaming has certainly come into its own, so to speak. The current generation (or past generation, depending on whether or not you’re dead set on getting a PS4 already) provided all the groundwork needed to develop the systems required to usher in a new age of player motion-controlled games. Albeit we’ve yet to see any popular franchises emerge from the number of games out there utilizing motion-tracking; you know, the sort of series that makes everyone want to run out and buy such a system. However, it’s very likely that the PS4 and its new and improved PS4 Eye might very well change all of that and it’s about time.

Why is that, you might be wondering? Well, for starters there’s the technical capabilities of the unit itself, which according to a direct statement from Sony, actually “incorporates two high-sensitive cameras that have wide-angle lenses with 85-degree diagonal angle views”. Furthermore, they went on to say that the new design “enables PlayStation 4 Eye to cut out the image of player from background, or to grasp players position in front and behind”. Now, combine this with the face recognition and scanning technology and its pretty clear that we might even begin to see game development trends emerge which allow players to effectively scan their faces and stick them directly onto the bodies of their characters (pure speculation there, of course).

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Scanning a face to put on a character. Now that would be awesome.