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SONY\'S EYETOY: WE\'VE PLAYED WITH IT

Behind closed doors last week, Sony revealed EyeToy for PS2 - we were there to play it

18:55 SCEE\'s Senior VP of Development, Phil Harrison, recently unveiled to selected press its radical EyeToy camera system - plus a couple of the twenty or so games currently being tested for use with the system.
The first, a kitsch, Banzai-style kung fu game, requires the player to stand in front of the camera atop the TV. You watch your moves live on the screen, while the PS2 animates simple cartoon fighters flying in from all directions to attack you. The camera tracks the motion of your fists, arms, elbows - even your shoulders - and translates this into coordinates within the game system to compare with the position of the characters on screen. By punching with your hands, swinging with your forearms, jabbing with your shoulders and flapping your elbows like a demented chicken, you appear to connect with the enemies as they appear, and with a satisfying \'thunk\' and general wailing, they disappear off-screen.

The second game revealed was a two-player co-operative window cleaning simulation - a genre first! The screen is covered in soapsuds; by standing in front of the camera and rubbing an imaginary pane of glass in front of you, the gunged-up screen gradually clears. You have to ensure all the gunk is gone within a certain time limit to progress to the next level.

The production team responsible for the product revealed that upwards of 20 mini games are under consideration - if they\'re half as fun as the two we played, this could be the must-have peripheral for... ah, this year or next?

Phil Harrison confirmed that the product will see the light of day in the UK and Europe, though no decisions have as yet been taken regarding Japanese or US distribution. However, SCEE is currently investigating the speed at which the cameras can be manufactured - it may arrive in time for Christmas 2002, or could slip into next year if sufficient units cannot be produced.

Beats crappy dance mats any day...

Woho! Sounds fun..
I hope they are making that StarWars Lightsaber game they were talking about.

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sony should make a boxing game to use with this technology

This kind of technology has been in development for yonks. It\'s really just now that we are beginning to see some real things happening. It\'s a very cool idea.

i could see these being very big for a after pub thing!!!

cool