Control Video Games with a Camera

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.

Comments

An EyeToy clone, but that's a Good Thing

[oscarmv]

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.

Hello! 1995 is calling.

[Kickasso]

It wants its stuff back.

I had this kind of thing years ago on Windows

[EnglishTim]

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.

How far away is Minority Report Type Interface?

[UV_Haze]

Just thinking about the minority report interface. This game interface isn't too far off from what I saw in minority report, it's a lot more than I has expected in terms of applicaitons I could use with my iSight. The only negative is that my arms tend to get sore very quickly; however, I still managed to land my parachute guy within 47Meters of the target. Overall its a very cool app. Shows a lot of promise with physical gestures and things like that in Interface usage.

Re:How far away is Minority Report Type Interface?

[venicebeach]

I think this was one of the few things minority report got right. This kind of gesture-based control is potentially extremely powerful. Human capacity for sequencing and generation of action sequences is extremely advanced, and may be the evolutionary precursor to vocal language. I bet a gesture-based computer-human interface will ultimately be the way we deal with these things rather than the star-trek vocal control way.

Three cheers for Pudge!

[hankaholic]

Seriously, I'm impressed.

Posted by pudge on Sunday January 04, @08:35AM
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I played it with my DV camera [...] I want death and maiming in my video games.

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