The face tracking and animation tech behind the newly announced Avatar Kinect service sounds ideal for games. Imagine an RPG where you could see your party's faces in a status window. Or a horror game that eases up on the tense situations if it sees that you're becoming scared.
The implementation of this technology in games is still a ways off, but Microsoft Senior Director of PR for Entertainment Services.
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Instead of the party's face in a status window, have the avatars be the characters in the dungeon, or whatever.
Sounds pretty stupid