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I couldn\'t see the images while I was using the other crap user name. My apologies.

User interaction is not something that Sony seems to devote a lot of R&D to.

You must have been living in a cave while Sony R&D have actively researched and developed a friendly camera called EyeToy that features user-interaction through motion. Not only that, but Sony have actively tried to enhance that experience by implementing colour recognition (as seen in SpyToy and in earlier demos when EyeToy was introduced; i.e., the Witch demo).

In fact, interaction of that level has been even shown using the EyeToy on PS3 at Sony\'s pre E3 press conference.

Sony isn\'t known as an innovator when it comes to gaming.

I won\'t go as far to call them "TEH INOVATORZ", but they clearly have demonstrated some innovation in form of hardware architecture with the PS2. Technological innovation can also lead to innovation in gameplay btw.

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Eyetoy - It\'s been done before. It was a gimmick then and it\'s a gimmick now.

Originally posted by seven
You must have been living in a cave while Sony R&D have actively researched and developed a friendly camera called EyeToy that features user-interaction through motion. Not only that, but Sony have actively tried to enhance that experience by implementing colour recognition (as seen in SpyToy and in earlier demos when EyeToy was introduced; i.e., the Witch demo).

In fact, interaction of that level has been even shown using the EyeToy on PS3 at Sony\'s pre E3 press conference.

1.

2. Every webcam since god knows when does the exact same thing that the eye toy does. At best Sony took an off the shelf webcam and connected it to the PS2.

the gameboy camera did not have the same level of interactivity as the eye toy does.  That thing just took pictures.. I don\'t remember being able to karate chop little dudes using the GB camera....

Eyetoy - It\'s been done before. It was a gimmick then and it\'s a gimmick now

I think you need to look up the word gimmick.

Every webcam since god knows when does the exact same thing that the eye toy does. At best Sony took an off the shelf webcam and connected it to the PS2.

It\'s not the hardware that does it, it\'s the software. Besides, I don\'t recall any other webcam enabling some user interface on any other platform, even on PC. Maybe you care to point them out?

(BTW; That Gameboy cam is nothing more than to take photos, as far as I know)

Nintendo did have plans to incorporate avatar pics in Perfect Dark, by using that GB camera, but it got scrapped.

I also vaguely remember some Corel Draw kind of app which would use the cam in combo with the 64DD. We all know what happened to that thing...

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Originally posted by Jumpman
every console this gen is going to be white

 yea they were caterin\' to the afri americans last gen..this gen it\'s the white folk...next the color will be butter peacan tan,..for my puerto rican and latino peeps..

It\'s because of that damn iPod.

X360 = Giant iPod

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Originally posted by Soul Reaver
It\'s because of that damn iPod.

X360 = Giant iPod

Agreed.

Originally posted by seven
It\'s not the hardware that does it, it\'s the software. Besides, I don\'t recall any other webcam enabling some user interface on any other platform, even on PC. Maybe you care to point them out?

(BTW; That Gameboy cam is nothing more than to take photos, as far as I know)

When I worked at Best Buy back in 2001 we used to setup certain computers with webcams that had games running. They had the same kind of stuff that is on the Eye toy. People would stand in front of the camera and make fools of themselves while trying to play the game on screen.

Don\'t fool yourself. The Eye toy is a webcam. There is nothing innovative about it.

Yeah I had a web cam that did the same thing.But  still I believe its innovative since the Eye Toy is the first to e used in gaming and be able to do so many things with it

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Originally posted by Black Samurai
When I worked at Best Buy back in 2001 we used to setup certain computers with webcams that had games running. They had the same kind of stuff that is on the Eye toy. People would stand in front of the camera and make fools of themselves while trying to play the game on screen.

Don\'t fool yourself. The Eye toy is a webcam. There is nothing innovative about it.

that\'s what i thought..i seen that eye toy thing a couple of years ago and all i did was see myself on tv...couldn\'t figure out how to actually play the game tho...

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As stated by others, most webcams do exactly what the Eyetoy does. Infact, a lot of webcams come with software just for that. My old ( around \'99) intel webcam came with software that had the user interact with the game. So, please, don\'t kid yourself.

Originally posted by Unicron!
Yeah I had a web cam that did the same thing.But  still I believe its innovative since the Eye Toy is the first to e used in gaming and be able to do so many things with it

Hello? Sega had something close to that. You laid it on the floor and it translated your moves to the screen. I don\'t recall the name of it tho\'.

Nintendo had the camera, which would allow users to put themselves into the game, most notable was Perfect Dark, but it was pulled at last mintue, in fear of kids putting pictures of their teachers in the game or what not.

The eyetoy is nothing original.

Black Samurai;

Don\'t fool yourself. The Eye toy is a webcam. There is nothing innovative about it.

Which part of...

It\'s not the hardware that does it, it\'s the software.

...don\'t you understand? We all know EyeToy is just a camera - the innovation lies within the software developed by Sony\'s R&D Studios. Even if such technology has been developed before, it never reached beyond a very small niche market - in fact, I\'ve never heard of it. Fact is, Sony got this into the market and brought this experience to many people that haven\'t seen this before. It\'s a great thing.

Besides, you have yet to prove which software did it earlier. I\'d be quite interested to see for myself how good it was and how advanced the application behind it was. Care to provide us with a link?