EyeToy

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EyeToy is a camera that is available as an accessory for the PlayStation 2. Here, the player's movements are recorded by the camera and included in the game. The EyeToy as a webcam connected to the console.

EyeToy is from the company Namtai or Logitech and is connected via a USB connection to the PlayStation 2 by Sony. Focus can be adjusted manually by turning the lens.

Games

The first two games that had supported the EyeToy Eye Toy: Play Eye Toy and Groove. With Eye Toy: Play is a collection of twelve small games where you fight, for example, dance, rotate dish or can chip off ninjas. With Eye Toy: Groove the main task consists in dancing. For some time now Eye Toy Play 3 is available, which also includes several new features along with some revised versions of the already well-known games, as well as a software that allows a room etc. to monitor ( Spy Toy).

2005 appeared the game Eye Toy Kinetic. This is a virtual home trainer. At the beginning of an individual training plan is created, which is then processed. You can train both the stamina and the muscles. Whether it replaces the fitness center, depends on the user. In this game, a wide angle lens was settled, so that the whole body appears on the TV. Combat, in which you also learned some basics of Hung Gar: On 14 November 2006, the sequel Eye Toy Kinetic appeared.

In various other games, the EyeToy camera is optionally supported. They include for example the SingStar series.

Versions

Using a special Windows driver, the camera will work on a Windows PC. In current versions of Linux, the camera will automatically recognize the Video4Linux camera.

The EyeToy camera was originally delivered in a black casing. Suitable for smaller PStwo slimline console in the color " satin silver" there is the Eye Toy camera now also available in silver. It is identical to the old version with the serial number 00031 SLEH, only smaller.

Related Products

For the Sega Dreamcast console was released only in Japan, the Dreameye camera. This photo could be created and sent via console via the Internet and changed by additional software. Together with the Dreamcast microphone could use video chat. The software maker free verse offers - following the same concept - a collection of games called ToySight to. This will require a Macintosh computer and a firewire camera, such as Apple's iSight.