Will we be able to hail other ships using our webcam?asked by Merkin

So we're actually looking at technology that's kind of along those lines, but what we're hoping to do is have the webcam on you and you talk, and we actually track your face onto your avatar, and then the player on the other side sees your avatar pop up and you hear, say, my voice, and the lips are moving in sync with what I'm saying, but it's actually the in-game avatar, because that's obviously, I think, much more immersive. So that's what we're shooting for.

That's a pretty big deal.

We've been sitting on that one for a while, so that's some big breaking news right there. And right now it's early days, but it looks pretty neat.