New Emotions for Fortnite Players: Epic Games Acquires Hyprense

Fortnite was originally intended to be a casual social space game, but with the advancement of technology, it has become more than just a simple way to pass the time by building a fleet.

Inside the game space, the emotions of the characters are pre-registered and there was a restriction on them, but now, with a high degree of probability, these restrictions can be overcome.

Ever since Epic bought Hyprense, there has been increasing talk of transferring the player’s emotions to the virtual character. This is possible with a regular webcam. This technology can be appreciated in a presentation video from Hyprense. The beta version was available to users at the beginning of autumn, at the moment access to the application is closed.

After Epic added Hyprense to its headquarters of game developers and digital Human, the development of facial capture began, it cannot be said that this is a primary task for the company and it is not known in which project it will appear initially.

According to Kim Libreri, those. Director of Epic, the addition of Hyprense employees has significantly accelerated the creation of technology that allows you to transfer emotions to the virtual world to the smallest detail.

Epic worked on a similar project, which used a camera from the iPhone TrueDepth. However, using a Hyprense webcam has the potential to make the technology more accessible to developers.