GDC: Amazing Tech Video For PS Eye

Linkin Park Fan | February 21, 2008 | Video | Playstation 2 Playstation 3 Game Developers Conference 2008

At GDC 08, people were able to get some hands on with Sony's Tank War Demo for the Playstation Eye. Simply draw an object on a piece of paper and let the Playstation Eye read it, and will be displayed as a moving object. Please Sony! make this into a game!

We've seen videos of Sony's Tank War Demo for the PS Eye before, and they looked really intriguing. But after having a hands-on today, I'm really excited over the simple tech demo.

As long as you position the various elements of the tank in proper relative positions (tank body middle, treads off to the side and a turret up top), the software smoothly integrates the design to a badass killing machine.

After shooting the video, I drew a tank of my own and was incredibly impressed by the easily digitized product. Because while we've seen this tank game before on plenty of platforms, playing with your own customizable character on screen is unbelievably fulfilling. Sure, the first thing many of us think is perverted drawings cropping up in multiplayer matches, but watch the vid and you'll realize that the unforeseen potential in the technology could bring interesting gameplay possibilities—even in a small tech demo like this one.

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Xenctuary | February 21, 2008

Very cool. And fish tank beats all other tanks!
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kik36 | February 21, 2008

WOW, that is truly amazing!!!
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iLLmatic | February 21, 2008

This is actually very old. Sony didn't even come up with it, but I'm sure they made those people who did, financially comfortable. It is amazing though.
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Naruto Boy | February 22, 2008

A Tank game? That has to be good.
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Red 9 | February 22, 2008

Only with the Cell processor, baby.
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Silver Mirror | February 22, 2008

Wow, that's pretty nice, I see much potential for this in other games
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tallteen86 | February 22, 2008

@iLLmatic - Now that you mention it, I think I've heard of it ages ago too >_> Weird >_>

In any case, yeah, rather neat....I wonder what sort of freaky tanks we'll see people posting on Youtube and stuff? I bet a penis shaped one (shaft = turrent)....I wonder ho detailed you can be? Can it be some uber complexx tank, so long as the wheels and turrent are clearly marked? Can you make a turrent that goes sideways or in multiple directions?
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Red 9 | February 22, 2008

The tanks I could make! They'd be so crazy and complex you'd never know which end is the front.