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What you see here is the wonderful Mark Parry and Sandy Spangler from Sony London Studios pledging their support to The National Videogame Archive by donating the original, working prototype EyeToy camera for PS2. Complete with its handwritten ‘#1′ prototype sticker, this little black box revolutionised gameplay by blurring the boundary between the virtuality of the gameworld and the actuality and domesticity of the living room – and all for 30 quid!
Here’s Dr Richard Marks, the man who devised the EyeToy, talking about his creation and showing some tech demos.
We are hugely thankful to the lovely people at London Studios for this donation and are incredibly excited to see where they take EyeToy next…just look at this video for a glimpse of some is-it-real-or-is-it-sci-fi goodness…PlayStation Eye and the EyePet…
of course, for people old enough to remember Tomorrow’s World, this might look just a little like MIT’s interactive physics interactive whiteboard demo…
You can find out more about EyeToy at the official site and read about the history its development at Gamasutra where friend-of-GameCity Tom Kim has written a nice ‘In-Depth’ article.