Brekel Pro Face 2 Released

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While I don't usually highlight commercial products, this product and others from Brekel deserve an exception...

Brekel Pro Face 2

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For Kinect for Windows v2 & Kinect for Xbox One sensors


Brekel Pro Face v2 is a Windows application that enables 3D animators to record and stream 3D face tracking of up to 6 people from your living room or office using a Kinect sensor.

• multi-person face tracking (1-6 people simultaneously)
• track head position/rotation
• track 20 different face shapes (including left/right asymmetry)

• rewritten to fully utilize all the data of the Kinect v2 sensor
• can run simultaneously with Pro Body 2 sharing data from the same sensor
• works in realtime, no offline processing required
• no calibration required, just stand in front of the sensor and record

• supports FBX formats v6, v7, Ascii and Binary (other file formats coming)
• export as mesh with blendshapes/morphs that can be used to drive your own characters
• record pointcloud data in sync for use in Pro PointCloud 2
• record audio in sync from Kinect’s microphone or any other audio source

• adjust smoothing/filtering
• adjustable symmetry constraint
• adjustable scale/offset per animation unit
• build face mesh resembling actor

• visualizes Color, InfraRed, Depth, 3D PointCloud and Face Mesh
• ability to resample output data from 30fps to custom frame rates
• ability to sync recording between multiple Brekel app on the same machine or different machines on the same network
• Optionally stream and record directly to Autodesk MotionBuilder using included plugins for 2009-2015 32 and 64 bit versions

System requirements:

• Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 (USB stack of Windows 7 or below can’t handle bandwidth requirements of v2 sensor and is NOT supported)
• USB 3.0 port, Intel and Renesas chipsets only! (others brands may or may not work)
• DirectX 11 capable GPU (Intel HD4000, AMD Radeon HD6470M / HD6570, NVIDIA Geforce 610M or above)
• 4 GB or more RAM
• Dual Core 3.1Ghz i7/i5 CPU or equivalent (slower should work but may drop frames)
• 1280×1024 screen (recommended: 1920×1080 or higher)

Project Information URL: http://brekel.com/brekel-pro-face-2/

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