Transform The PS2 Eye Into A Webcam
Anyone remember PlayStation 2 Eye? You know, Sony’s PS2 camera for playing some average ‘wave-at-the-TV’ games’? It was largely blasted out of existence when the Wii arrived but still, it was different and now someone has figured out how to give them a new lease of life. I bought my Eye cheap a couple of years ago in Computer Exchange, thinking the kids would get a kick out of swinging their arms in front of the TV but then, along came the Wii and the Eye never left its bag. It cost me £5 though, and I’ll be damned if I see that go to waste! Over at the NUI Group, there’s now a hack to allow you to setup the Eye as your Webcam, with some easy to install drivers. According AlexP:”I started thinking to myself: “This camera is awesome and it will be such a great and inexpensive replacement for Firefly MV and the like. If we could just get it to work under Windows…” Initially, I started poking around with the USB trying to send some commands to the PS3Eye and see what happens… After many long nights I’m bringing you the result: - Full VGA (640×480) 60fps video capture test app that features uncompressed high quality raw video - Low CPU overhead (since there is no decompression involved on the PC) - Very low latency (1 frame time period).” Way to go Alex. Now where the hell did I stash that Eye? It’s in a red and white bag, covered in dust….-Martin Lynch [NUI Group via PS3 Fanboy] ps2 webcam software console
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Original post by nafiz