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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.

  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.