Playstation 3 Gets Facial Recognition Capabilities Courtesy of Playstation Eye Camera

Sony is taking cues from Microsoft's recently introduced Project Natal
that allows for a controller-free gaming and entertainment experience
when playing on an Xbox, and have announced that courtesy of the
existing PlayStation Eye camera, the PlayStation3 is going to be able to
face detect and track your skeletal movement (an industry first), soon.

Sony Europe's head of developer services, Kish Hirani, said that the
functionality will be added soon and that the new PS3 will soon detect
gender and even the age of the face, separate facial features such as
the nose, eyes and ears, and even detect whether you're smiling or not .
Although face recognition seems like a really neat thing to get with
your favorite upcoming game, it's up to the developers to feature it.

I honestly thought that the Playstation Eye camera was pretty useless or
an under-used technology in nicer words, but it looks like the company
has finally got the idea of putting it at work. Am I the only one who
thinks the PS3 just went ahead of Xbox … ?