New Playstation Eye Revealed!!!

[The Guardian]

PRETTY COOL STUFF!!!

New EyeToy Revealed for PS3
Now with improved motion-sensitive camera and noise-cancelling microphone.
by Rob Burman, IGN UK


UK, April 26, 2007 - Sony has unveiled its next-generation EyeToy for the PlayStation 3, featuring a host of improvements including new microphone for online voice chat, plus the ability to capture videos and save them to the hard drive.

Dubbed the PlayStation Eye, this new version includes "huge advances in USB camera and microphone technology [and] is set to revolutionise the experience of online communication on the PlayStation Network" according to Sony.

New to the PlayStation Eye is a noise-cancelling microphone which reduces background noise to focus on your speech when chatting to people online. Meanwhile, the camera itself can be used to take photographs and create videos or audio files, which can then be saved to the PS3's hard drive. The Eye Camera also comes bundled with software - called EyeCreate - for editing or adding "eye-catching effects" to your creations.

Eye Camera can capture up to 120 frames per second, for smoother video, and is engineered to work in low-light too, meaning it doesn't need a brightly lit room to function properly. There's also an adjustable zoom lens, featuring a 56º field of view for head-and-shoulder chat, plus a 75º field of view to capture the whole body, doubtless for EyeToy-style arm-waving games.

Sony Europe boss David Reeves said: "PlayStation Eye is a great example of how we have moved forward so significantly with our technology. PlayStation Eye has four times the resolution, twice the framerate and double the sensitivity of its predecessor the EyeToy USB Camera. With the technology that we now have at our disposal we will be able to dramatically improve the communications experience enjoyed on PS3."

 

[Electro UK]

Reminds me of the entire genitle area.

 

[Aiden]

Kinda ugly...

 

[imdaly]

wtf is the purpose of that huge-ass microphone???? Tons of webcams have built-in mics that are hidden inside the camera. That just looks ******ed.

 

[Mr Jide]

Reminds me of the entire genitle area.

Your package that small ey? t:

 

[Electro UK]

wtf is the purpose of that huge-ass microphone???? Tons of webcams have built-in mics that are hidden inside the camera. That just looks ******ed.

I have to agree. Its hideous.

 

[The Guardian]

WHO CARES WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA DATE IT, ARE YOU???up:

 

[Electro UK]

Nah but I was hoping for more of a mini PS3 look like the PS2 eyetoy had.

 

[imdaly]

WHO CARES WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA DATE IT, ARE YOU???up:

Ironically, with it reminding some people of "the whole genitile area", some people actually might give it a shot!

 

[BatMatt]

I like it

 

[A.J.Rimmer(BSC)]

I doesn't matter what it looks like.

Seems like it'll be less of a novelty than the first eye toy.

 

[Timstuff]

It's ugly but that doesn't matter since the features are so cool. Just knowing how improved it is makes it 3x more sexy than the Xbox camera in my eyes.

 

[Moon |つき|]

Yeah, its pretty ugly but I can decorate it or something? lol
Thats awesome, hopefully they'll make a ParaPara game for ps3 when this comes out.

 

[JM0087]

It looks o.k. and is it wireless?

 

[Zenien]

Eye of Judgement - Sony's unbearably compelling CCG, played with the upcoming Playstation Eye peripheral - may be the most niche product ever conceived. A constructible deck card game that requires a custom camera and a six hundred dollar gaming console to interpret it, "niche" may be insufficient to describe the tight, sunless, deep sea crevice such a product might reside in. Not that it matters to me, of course: I am the pale white lobster that makes such cracks his home.

Webcams always make me slightly uncomfortable, though. They aren't so much evil as they are, well... cameras, pointed constantly at my face. I've never been able to determine if I'm worried about being surveilled through them, or if I think the device itself houses some prurient intellect. I needn't worry in this case, as Eye of Judgement comes with a special stand - a kind of personal Barad-dûr - which makes the camera gaze down upon the battlemat. In "judgement," presumably.

If you find the basic ideas presented here interesting, you need to make it a point to stop by Gamespot today - they just posted the most robust preview available for the game, along with a couple videos that reveal the play mechanics. It's really something else. Games that combine deck dynamics with tabletop positioning liquefy my will, making resistance impossible. Culdcept Saga, the Magic/Monopoly hybrid I have extolled in the past, is appealing for many of the same reasons - minus the physicality of actual cards, for which I will admit a shameful fetish.

I find it appealing and would enter into a Faustian bargain to acquire it, placing my eternal soul on equal par with a USB digicam and a few sealed boosters. The equipment required to even get in the door of this thing represents a material investment, but for the right product, cost is irrelevant - as we have discussed in previous installments, desire and perception warp our ideas of acceptable pricing. Is this game worth the cost? How about this game plus Final Fantasy XIII? This game plus FFXIII plus the fully constituted social online experience which must, even now, be in development?

(CW)TB out.