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Control Video Games with a Camera

Posted by pudge on from the very-neat dept.

sEEKz writes "ToySight is set of cool games and toys to play using your iSight or similar FireWire camera. Using a system of object and motion detection to track your position, Toysight allows you to control buttons, sliders and perform gestures on the screen, putting you right in the action." I played it with my DV camera, and it worked OK, but I couldn't crash the little parachute guy. I want death and maiming in my video games.

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  1. An EyeToy clone, but that's a Good Thing by oscarmv · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've tried it and it's just like the PS2 EyeToy camera/game combo (with different games and all but based on the same idea). However it still remains a very funny game and is something to boast to your Windows friends.

    1. Re:An EyeToy clone, but that's a Good Thing by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 2, Informative

      Why would "your Windows friends" be particularly impressed? My Logitech QuickCam Web came with software which seems to be a load like this; I've forgotten its name now, but I got this a couple of years ago.

  2. I had this kind of thing years ago on Windows by EnglishTim · · Score: 4, Informative

    The intel 'Create and Share' cameras used to come with a few little games that you operated with the camera - like bouncing the basketball into the hoop, that kind of thing.

    This was back in 1998 or 1999.

    Shame they never went further with the technology - Sony were the first to put some really polished games together with it.

    1. Re:I had this kind of thing years ago on Windows by MikeXpop · · Score: 2, Informative

      I can confirm this. I had one of those and still did. The basketball one was by far the most entertaining. The others (there were three) were just pointless things like Pop the Bubbles and Bounce around a Globe. They weren't very fun, and you usually got bored with them after about 2 minutes of play.

      The cool thing was that you could have it as a screensaver, then whatever moved in the room (Dad, cat, etc) would trigger it. My cat hated that thing.

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  3. I saw something like this... by spyrral · · Score: 2, Informative

    at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose last year. A groupd of guys threw an Indie Game Jam and most of the games were of this type. Interesting stuff.