Sony PlayStation Eye Camera (Bulk Packaging)

The product is what I expected. I use this camera as part of a infra red tracking device to play games on the PC.

I modified it into a IR head tracking camera. It works great and when it arrived it worked as intended aswell!

You buy it, you get the software (CL-eye), and you work it.-physical-This thing weighs quite a bit. It dropped off my monitor and it made a preeeeety big thud. The webcam still works though. Cable is maybe too long for desktop usage, and WAY too long for laptop usage. Mine had a ferrite clamp on it. The bottom of the product is some kind of felt-ish material. Provides better grip than bare plastic.-technology-The camera itself is very high framerate. With the CL-Eye drivers, you can boost it above 120 frames per second. However, basic photography notes that with higher shutter speed, the image gets darker. So don't go trying to film 120fps shots at night.The mic. Its advertised as beam-forming/directional; The mics themselves cannot form a noise-cancellation map, the software is supposed to. Since this was never actually supposed to work with anything other than a PS3, then there is none. And plus, the mics sound like butt anyway. Since there are 4 mics, then are 4 pickups. If you sit the camera on a desk that is shaking from bass, any program listening in on the quad-mic is going to suffer clipping. Everything will sound like its in a castle, echoing from the massive concrete walls. My friends said I sounded like a king though, so that was cool.-notes-If you want to use multiple Playstation Eye cameras for the PC, you'll need to get CL-Eye's special software to support multiple cameras. The free version is only one supported. This will only matter to a small amount of people. Most of that small party will probably be doing 3D motion capture for rigs.

I lost my previous Ps eye camera and bought this one as my replacement to use it with my ps3 move controllers. The camera came covered in Saran Wrap, no official Sony box, but it's all good because it was still in mint condition and works exactly the way it should.

I don't even own a PS3. This camera is strongly recommended for use with Free Track on a PC and for that it is working well. Set-up was easy and it does what it is supposed to do as far as Free-Track goes. I did not remove the IR filter and I don't know if the one I got is the easy or hard one to remove. I am using a piece of un-exposed, developed camera film with both sides covered in black magic marker as an IR bandpass filter. This is working reasonably well. The room I am using it in has windows from both sides and behind me so the light conditions are constanly changing during the day. This means I have had to adjust the settings as the light in the room changes. I am using a 3 point clip with wide angle IR LEDs. I am going to try running a little higher current to the LEDs to see if that will help with the ambient light conditions. But for now closing the curtains works good too. Of course if your not running Free-Track then none of this means anything to you.

The camera has a mic and camera and it is the ps3 sony device. You can see normal wear and tear but I'm happy with the fact that it works!