Adinnieken on 21 February 2012
Why do people keep suggesting this is a new camera? It's not. Sony is patenting a method for developing a 3D user interface. There is nothing new about the camera technolgy that the current PS Eye doesn't already have.
It's not a Kinect clone, it's not even near the capability of Kinect, it's a 3D interface via a depth sensing camera. However, at near range the PS Eye can within a certain plane (as the patent suggests) depth through the RGB camera. It already does this.
It's a new method for a 3D interface, not a camera.
