Laughter… as a “controller”? It sounds funny on paper, but Sony Computer Entertainment America seems serious about the concept considering they filed a patent for a laugh detecting program.
The application picks up on metadata, which includes laughter recorded by the microphone and a user’s expression from the camera. Both devices are linked to a “game console”, shown as a PlayStation 3 in the diagram, which identifies the user, notes emotions, and transfers the data over a network.
How will Sony identify emotions? The patent mentions identifying body gestures and tracking group interactions “such as when two individuals give each other a ‘High Five.’” Sony also developed smile detecting software for their Cyber Shot W120 camera which could be used too.
While the patent focuses on laughter it can identify other emotions such as sadness, excitement, anger, joy, interest, and boredom. For example, boredom may be detected if a user is “looking away from the presentation, yawning, or talking over the presentation.”
Here’s an example set of data and a flow chart depicting how the system works.
The software isn’t limited to video games. It can also be used for TV shows, films, and other media presentations, but we’ll drop those for now.
What do you think of a game that can read your emotions? Perhaps, an RPG that changes its story or the way the characters interact based on how you react.
Heh. I just noticed - the perpetual boot kicker has its arrow in the counter-clockwise direction. The man's getting slapped by the boots on their way down!
I would've expected the opposite, but maybe that's why it's funny.
Heh. I just noticed - the perpetual boot kicker has its arrow in the counter-clockwise direction. The man's getting slapped by the boots on their way down!
I would've expected the opposite, but maybe that's why it's funny.
He's kicking his own ass because he's too stupid to figure out how to properly kick his own ass.
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this whole thing seems very weird
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Laugh Detected, Smile Detected
I think better.
Edit: Well, not better than Guernica >< Tooooo slow.
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But not quite.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Needs to be "lolsony"
It's gotta be this. It's too good to pass up.
I would've expected the opposite, but maybe that's why it's funny.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
because that isn't the oldest fucking meme that was never funny in the first place
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Laugh detected, smile detected!
However, it remains current and cogent because they do things like this
No. Find something new. Good God is G&T the lamest fucking place sometimes
Holy shit, how did we not notice that!
This means that the person drawing it just had to put sometihng generically funny on it
So the first thing that came to mind was that thing
That's pretty hilarious all on it's own
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