PS EYE and EYE of judgment gameplay

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Fuzzmosis said:
6. Depending on how in depth the bar code is, I can't see it being all difficult for some company rather than selling the correct printed cards, a blank card with a bar code for any card you want.

I spent a couple of years coding commercial image recognition systems for banks/cheque recognition.

Cheques all use MICR - magnetically encoded ink. That's basically the only sort of thing that could stop card piracy with this - but its impossible due to the nature of the PSeye.

It wouldn't be long before web sites pop up with high definition images of *every* released card. You download the image, print them out on a decent printer - cut them out - and you have your own fake cards.

I just cannot possibly see how Sony can stop this. The only way would be for *every* card to have some form of unique ID, and when you buy a pack you register the pack online to your username.

But that would suck as well - the physical cards + Eye would *really* become redundant, you would be unable to give/swap cards with friends, etc.

The other option would be for the Eye to be a lot more than a camera - with the ability to maybe send out pulses(?) of certain frequencies, which only non-visual elements bounce back (i.e. something within the card). 

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Maybe Sony is just banking on the fact that people are just too lazy, and wouldn't bother to do this.