Sony's Eye Toy Previewed, Future Explored

Posted by simoniker on Friday July 4, 2003 @11:41PM from the when-i'm-cleaning-windows dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to Boomtown's hands-on preview of Sony's Eye Toy, the forthcoming USB camera add-on for the Playstation 2 which comes with a suite of mini-games. As the preview explains, "The Eye Toy has motion detection capability, so you basically play all the games by moving your hands, your head, or even your legs." Interestingly, future plans for the Eye Toy, which was one of the E3 Game Critics Award winners, are also discussed, showing Sony are committed to using the hardware for more than just the one title: "The next instalment of Eye Toy: Play is already in development, and is due for release this Christmas. It will be a far more music-oriented product, featuring many tracks by popular artists. It will also feature full online video messaging capabilities."

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Great value by Rxke · 2003-07-05 02:32 · Score: 2, Interesting

Mom and dad won't be able to tell the kids it's too expensive, for the price of a regular game, you get a reasonable videocam, that you can use on your VCR to boot, can't see how this could go wrong. Also, 'Windows cleaning emulator", Hmmm... Won't Bill Gates be just a little bit pissed off when he reads that?