EggySong85  |  September 1st, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Anton demonstrated this in his tech demo vid during the robot part… but they didn’t really show it off very good.
+1 anyway because it’s cool.

BlazeKush420  |  September 1st, 2010 at 1:46 pm

Eyetoy isnt used enough ingames for me to buy it. Im only going to get it when PS move comes out.
Eyetoy should have been in a lot of games. Like Demon’s Souls. To take a pic of ur face.
And so many other games that could use Eyetoy. =(

trev456  |  September 1st, 2010 at 6:53 pm

Wait – if you turn your head, it would be kind of hard to see the screen…

mitchjr  |  September 1st, 2010 at 7:37 pm

I agree with trev456. Good idea but you didn’t think it all the way through

MrBeatdown  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 2:33 am

You really think constantly turning your head from side to side is a good idea?

BalramRules  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 10:21 am

That’ll be quite cool in PlayStation Home =P

P_dump  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 11:06 am

Even if this did work, think what would happen if you combined it with 3D…

bushinn-ninja  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Can sonny make it easier for people to find friends who have the ps3 eye,some sort of camera detection so you can invite people who have video chat.

Alestes  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 3:30 pm

trev456 is spot on, this is a terrible idea.

Jeigh  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 3:38 pm

Yeah, this would definitely be problematic. For reasons brought up above and because the PSEye by itself has proven to be inconsistent at best from the very limited experiments Sony did with the Eye before giving up on it (and its owners) two years ago.

It couldn’t even accurately track a single hand in my experience. While M$’s Kinect may be a gaming punch-line, it can do this far better than any other camera and even it can’t do it perfectly.

LG22  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 10:58 pm

I tried to be specific but there were limited characters.

LG22  |  September 2nd, 2010 at 11:00 pm

Like if people don’t like the idea they could just turn it off also how sensitive it should be.

Cyb3rfr34k-iso  |  September 3rd, 2010 at 6:59 am

peoples got decapitated for saying the earth was round not square!

good idea, but i have 2 kids running everywere in the house.
that’ll be hard to “control play” HAHA! XD +1

kenny-1995  |  September 3rd, 2010 at 9:59 am

Thats stupid.

intel16  |  September 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

If you turn your head you won’t be able to see the screen unless of course you have that prototype ps3 which allowed multiple screens, oh wait it never made it to the finished product, oh well theres always next generation.

boneyardweller89  |  September 3rd, 2010 at 1:00 pm

This would probably be up to the game devs. Not Sony. I’m voting it up anyway though.

LEONOFDEATH  |  September 5th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

@trev456 and everyone who agreed with him!

YOURE ALL SO WRONG!

Head tracking like this has been use in FPS games for a LONG time.
(Look up TrackIR videos)

I hate how everyone is just jumping to the conclusion that “this wont be possible”.

It only takes a slight turn of the head to turn the on screen view alot more. You can still see the screen fine!

HEAD TRACKING IS OLD TECH, AND IT WORKS WELL!

God I hate people!

Ravenandcrow  |  September 5th, 2010 at 3:02 pm

to 3, and 4… you would not turn your head fully, clearly that would not work as you stated we would not beable to see the scren… what IS BEING done with games like Arma 2 is that they use an IR camera to track head movement and scale it so if you move your head a little it moves a lot on screen. Thus you would still be able to see the screen

ChriSTFU  |  September 6th, 2010 at 9:41 pm

@LEONOFDEATH

r u serious? u must be very blind man cuz gaming like that freakin sux. “It only takes a slight turn of the head to turn the on screen view alot more” u kiddin? how would you stop then? and what if some object crossed the view and you had to turn? theres a reason many people dont know of that tech, and thats because its useless

mrdeadhead  |  September 7th, 2010 at 3:58 pm

myea turning your head to move the view wouldn’t work out with realistic motion because then you’d just not be looking at the screen.

and if you had a minor movement trigger a bigger on-screen change, then you’d have to sit perfectly still to play, and i don’t know about you but i enjoy moving around.

it would only work for games where slight movement is all you need, or basically as a gimmick for parts of some.

unfortunately the ps3 is not a proper platform for VR, and there won’t be one for a while, but the idea is cool. check out an arcade there’s a few VR games still floating around.

Pharen  |  September 9th, 2010 at 8:29 pm

@20, well put, I was trying to figure out how to say it but you beat me to it.

“if you had a minor movement trigger a bigger on-screen change, then you’d have to sit perfectly still to play, and i don’t know about you but i enjoy moving around.”

Grimzentide  |  September 21st, 2010 at 12:13 am

Head tracking could be used for the in-car camera view to look at the side mirrors, rear vision mirror and speedo etc. Turning your head to the the right would make the screen look at a mirror. Just enough so you still look at the screen but enough to take your eyes off the road.

Watching your mirrors could cause you to miss a braking marker making you miss the apex and allowing the competitor take your position on the track. This could give the game(s) another level of realism.

yukoniceforces  |  January 5th, 2011 at 10:54 pm

Doesn’t even work in GT5. Your drive just kinda wiggles a bit. Doesn’t add to the game.