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PullusPardus said:

nightsurge said:
People who just come in and say "EyeToy" are clearly not well informed. Please try harder to understand what this is and does. It may be inspired by the EyeToy, but it is not a copycat. This thing is leaps and bounds ahead of the EyeToy.

how do you know? you tried it?

what im seeing is the same as the Boxing from eye toy play 1

 

The ZCam is much more than an Eyetoy ripoff.

The Eyetoy is a passive sensor, just a light detecting camera. The ZCam also has a simple camera, but it adds another, active sensor to the device. This active sensor sends out a pulse of infrared light and measures the time it takes for that light to reflect off an object and return to the sensor. This allows it to accurately identify an object's size in two dimensions and position in three dimensions (the letter Z representing the third dimension, depth) without requiring any other source of light. It's the ZCam's ability to reliably 'see' all three dimensions without an external light source which is its distinguishing feature.