Sony's London Focused with Eyetronics Technology.(Product Announcement)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  May, 2001  

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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) plans to show how far 3-D technology has come with "The Getaway," a new PlayStation2 action game. Taking advantage of the graphics power of the PlayStation2, combined with live actors, motion-capture technology and a 3-D scanning system by Eyetronics Inc. (Leuven, Belgium), Sony claims to have created "a living, breathing London."

Developers recreated more than 31 square miles of London by taking digital photographs of every building, then modeling them and creating the textures for the game.

Players will be able to ...

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