More realistic mouth movements and facial animations in real time, says Sega.
Sega is currently developing a technology for future use in games that will allow for more realistic mouth movements with character voices. Magical VEngine will focus on constructing these movements by comparing the sounds of vowels and consonants against each other, and then applying the results to more natural facial movements, all in real-time.
The technology also promises to analyze speech of voice actors, and then to automatically apply the proper facial animations. For example, if someone speaks in an angry tone, the character in which the VEngine is being used on would convey an angry emotion on the fly.
It might be a while until games use this tool, as it is still under development. However, the Magical VEngine will be demonstrated at the Tokyo Institute of Technology toward the end of the month, so we might learn more about this interesting idea Sega has, at that time.