Sony Playstation Eye Camera Drivers For Mac

This is a simple way to add high-speed motion tracking to your interactive art. Download from box.net in chrome for mac windows 7. It communicates with the PS3 Eye camera using the inspirit/PS3EYEDriver driver. There's a simple built-in GUI for adjusting camera parameters and showing the buffer of recent capture data in an onion-skin style.

One camera supported for now
The camera runs at 320x240 187 frames per second mode only.
Every frame is precisely timestamped as soon as it is received over USB
Every frame is converted to RGBA and stored in a shared memory ring buffer
Additionally, the OpenCV implementation of Lucas-Kanade sparse optical flow runs in real-time on each frame, automatically finding and tracking as many points as it can with the available CPU power.
The tracking points and their motion, with subpixel accuracy, are also stored in this ring buffer
Total motion is integrated using the same technique used by Ecstatic Epiphany's motion tracking

To Do

High level client APIs still yet to be written. So far, there's a very low-level Processing example.

PS3 Eye camera on a mac. Discussion in 'macOS' started by nkj575, Jul 14, 2008. Snag the latest macam app and it works fine. Has a standalone app, as well as a plugin to use it with any other cam apps that support quicktime. Sony PS Eye camera is an accessory for PlayStation 3 gaming platform, that enables gesture based gaming and also video chatting. However, hardware hackers managed to crack it and make it work on PCs. Due to its capability as a camera and low cost (around 30$), the camera has become a popular tool for augmented reality, multi-touch and gesture recognition applications and projects.