But Amare made the trip to Sony's mo-cap studios in San Diego to do more than break baskets. He's helping create the next-gen games. That's NBA PS3. Helping capture the realism necessary to leave a look of awe on gamers faces, that look like Stephon had on his face when the big man threw down his first poster dunk, his first welcome to the NBA moment.
And it all started in a white-clad room that looked like something out of The Matrix. No pills, no kung fu, just pictures popping, lights flashing, and computers capturing every angle of the big man's dome.
"Technology is something. They're taking pictures of every angle of my head, then they use the computers to mash the pictures together. That's me, that's my head in the game," Amare says as he looks at the computer screen." It's crazy."
