Personal Gamer Pictures

Some of the questions I’ve seen asked a lot: “What is the deal with personal gamer pictures?” “Does this require the Xbox Live Vision camera?”

The personal gamer picture is a new feature enabled with the Spring Update. You do not need the Xbox Live Vision camera for this; you can go pick a new image right now. Personal gamer pictures will only be seen by others who are on your friends list. Everyone else sees your public picture.

When the Xbox Live Vision camera does become available this fall you will also be able to take your own photo using the camera. Again only your friends will be able to see this picture.

 

If you know a friend on the Xbox Team, or who works at Microsoft, there is a chance you may get to see their personal picture taken from the camera. We have been beta testing the camera and everyone really is having a fun time with the cool new feature.

-IndieGames (Daryl Welsh)

 

 

[EDIT: June 11, 2006]

 

There has been some confusion over my comments above. The feature 'Personal Gamer Pictures' can be used today. You can choose a gamer icon from any of the available ones on marketplace which will only show to your friends. 

 

The ability to take a snapshot of your own will not be available until the Xbox LIve Vision camera is released.

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2006
  I really wonder how adding someone's picture to their profile is going to change what one thinks of them.
  
  Voice alone resulted in pitch-based separatism.

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2006
  So the big question is when will we be able to set a image as our personal picture (like we can already set the background of the dashboard), presumably with the rescaling we can already get when say setting a display picture with Messenger.
  
  Or would I be right in thinking that might just hurt the money model just a little too much... ;)

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2006
  Nice one Daryl, can we use a picture from a memory stick or is it only gamerpics and vision camera stills?
  
  BTW: What are the chances of ever seeing Links 360 or at least Links on the BC list??

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Can you explain how exactly you do this?
  
  Thanks!

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  What size/format must the Gamerpic be?  And how to you get it onto the X360?  Via USB device (camera, hard disk), or upload to www.xbox.com?

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  Would you care to elaborate on how this is done?

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  How do you do it?

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  How I haven't heard about this yet is beyond me, but thanks.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
  how do you do this? put a tutorial please, i tried but failed to figure this functioin out

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
  yeah how can you get u're picture on right now?
  they say you can do it by using a usb key and put your picture on it
  i've done that but there's no way i can use it as personal pic :(
  

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
  Oh fantastic. Tell the xbox community its possible, but dont tell us HOW. Sheesh, the mentality...

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2006
  Uhm, is the feature described only that you can define another gamerpicture that can only be seen from your friends?
  You don't get to create your OWN gamerpicture? That's not 1337....

• Anonymous
  June 11, 2006
  For the personal gamer picture, I believe you can have either a normal gamer picture there or use the Xbox Live Vision camera to take a picture of yourself (when the camera comes out that is).
  
  It would have been nice if you could put any of your pictures there (not just one taken by the Xbox camera), but hey, MS wants to sell you the camera.
  
  Although if I am wrong, please correct me.

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  July 12, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  August 29, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  September 15, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  September 23, 2006
  More freedom for us = less money for them.
  
  I find it very dissapointing that we can't upload our own gamer pics from a PC.  Not being able to do this for the general gamer pic is reasonable, but there's no excuse for the personal (for friends only) gamer pic being restricted.  The only plausible reason why they arn't (haven't yet?) allowed us to do so, is because it would detract from official gamer picture sales, and perhaps -- but certainly not significantly -- XBL Vision sales.
  
  /wonders if the PS3 will have such restrictions

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  October 02, 2006
  Well, a way to put your own picture for the gamer pic would be to use the 360 camera (once it is finally released) and take a picture of your computer screen with the picture you want to put. Of course, the quality won't be the same, but it should work. And the reason that MS doesn't want to allow us to put any pic as our gamer pic would be for copyrights and also for the fact that they are selling the pics on the marketplace.

• Anonymous
  October 02, 2006
  I highly doubt potential copyright infringements are the primary reason as to why we can't upload a personal picture.  Last I checked, Windows Live Messenger has this feature available.

• Anonymous
  October 17, 2006
  Hi well I have made up my picture but all I need to now is how to get that on my Xbox live card when you sign in the picture I have chosen is not really what I wanted so I am wondering how do I change that to the picture that I have created on my computer and is in jpeg format any one now how to do this?

• Anonymous
  November 12, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  November 22, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  December 23, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2006
  Just to add to the comments on the post, i have been looking for a way to use a picture from a memory card for my personal gamer pic but i guess its not supported (...yet). I would like the ability to put up the same pic i use on facebook, is the feature in dev?

• Anonymous
  December 29, 2006
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  February 14, 2007
  wait i pay 40 pounds a year to get xbox live and you pay to get pictures this is were microsoft need to do something because sony are saying they are going to make their online play FREE thats why im getting the PS3

• Anonymous
  February 17, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 02, 2007
  plus the service on offer by sony won't be a patch on Live - you get what you pay for and at less than £4 per month I know I'm satisfied

• Anonymous
  March 21, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 23, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  March 26, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 04, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 19, 2007
  Has this been Fixed yet? Does anyone really pay for tiny images? this is such a joke.

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  April 20, 2007
  pretty nice huh?, well written for a non-American  :-D  Peace !!!!! and have lot's of Fun and Entertainment on Xbox Live --> Yeah !!!!!

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2007
  I would love to put my own pic on my 360 or whatever I choose but I can't big deal! people see who I am by my Play.. not to mention some of my rants lol... It's just simple business. You guys need to get over yourselves and have fun. Life's too short to be worried about a stupid gamer pic lol you guys are silly.

• Anonymous
  April 29, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  PingBack from http://cutebirdbaths.info/story.php?id=3988

• Anonymous
  June 19, 2009
  PingBack from http://edebtsettlementprogram.info/story.php?id=23829