What is the DC camera for?

doragasu · Post by **doragasu** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 4:58 pm

I've seen the camera in BILAL_XIA avatar, and I'd like to know what's this camera for. Is it intended to be used as a webcam? has it other uses? Does any game support it?

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 5:55 pm

only the software it comes with supports it. and some browsers. pretty cool piece of hardware though. I have one. played around with it for a bit, then boxed it up again. you can use it for a webcam to chat withsomeone else who has one, take and send pictures, send movies, and edit em and stuff. pretty cool.

dj898 · Post by **dj898** » Wed Jul 21, 2004 7:02 pm

and from bargain bin in Japan you can get it for 500 yen boxed mint.

cheers

megaman8x · Post by **megaman8x** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:38 am

what shops sell them?

ace · Post by **ace** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:48 am

What is the DC camera for

Taking pictures

doragasu · Post by **doragasu** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:40 pm

ace? wrote:
What is the DC camera for
Taking pictures

Oh, I'd never gess that

ace · Post by **ace** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:04 pm

Good thing I was around to help out then!

ian · Post by **ian** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:11 pm

ace? wrote:
What is the DC camera for
Taking pictures

cube_b3 · Post by **cube_b3** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:50 pm

are you guys talking about this pictre

no not this one

<---------- This one , hahah

maybe we can have a contest of somebody designing a game for the dream eye

cube_b3 · Post by **cube_b3** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 6:51 pm

although why does this have a blue dc logo where did I find this piture

I never look in my display picture

doragasu · Post by **doragasu** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:32 am

It'd be cool if it could be used with games like the infamous eye toy.

Mrfiddlez · Post by **Mrfiddlez** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:33 am

My Dc has a Blue Logo, I think it's because its a PAL dc/access, i hate the orange one, it looks like crap....

Freeze · Post by **Freeze** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 5:41 am

Naaaah. I love the orange one. It's kinda original you know.

I have the Japanese DreamEye, mint, only used once but never found out all the fuctions. According to the manual and online FAQs you can also use it without the DC for taking pictures like a real digital photocamera. But in the first like it's a webcam for the Japanese browsers.

As I said quite often, I would borrow interested and serious coders my DreamEye if they want to code some application or game for it. Actually the DreamEye is technical better than the EyeToy for PS2! Games like the the PS2 EyeToy: Groove or whatever would be no problem with this lil thingy. =)

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:33 am

Blue logo is the real one for me.

Freeze · Post by **Freeze** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:36 am

I think we have to change the continent we're living on.

Ah, I just remembered: The DreamEye should be released in Europe late 2001, there are a few prototypes out there, but it was never released there... so no real chance to get one with a blue swirl. :/

Ian Micheal · Post by **Ian Micheal** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:42 am

Could allways colour it hehe. Pal australia every thing has a blue swirl.

Mrfiddlez · Post by **Mrfiddlez** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:08 am

Yer, im Aussie, & i have Tha Blue Swirl, The orange one to me just Seems Ugly, PLain and Simple, does over seas hardware work on our dc's? if i can, i had more than 5 Japanese Students live with me over the past year, maybe i can ask them to buy me one and pay em back, know where u can get the dream-eye from in Japan? i think most of the students were from hiroshima, knoe any shops there that stock em?
James

Freeze · Post by **Freeze** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:15 am

Yepp, it's fully compatible. The only peripheral device out there which does only run on the same hardware as the add-on is the Karaoke System. The DreamEye works just fine.

Don't have a clue where to get the DreamEye right now, I got mine from Otaku Most Wanted (http://www.otakumw.com) which was bought by PlayAsia (eeew) and now doen't have such neat things now.

You could ask the Lik-Sang guys. Dunno where to get one else, sorry.

dj898 · Post by **dj898** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:18 am

i bought two unused boxes mint while i was in japan.
sold one to a guy in europe and the other's for my collection.
it's not that rare in japan and you can easily find on YJ...

cheers

Excalibur007 · Post by **Excalibur007** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:43 am

BILAL, that logo on the Dreameye in your avatar isn't blue, it's gray. Also, some of the Dreameye's had a red swirl around the lens and others didn't (mine doesn't).

As for the DC logo, Red is my favorite color so I prefer the red logo (it may be orange, but on all my dc's it looks red to me). Blue is my second favorite color, so I like the blue one too! I'd prefer a blue logo on my black Dreamcast to go with the blue LED, and a red light to go with the red logo, or an orange logo to go with the orange light on my white DC.

* The logo should match the LED for my taste.

Dreameye can be used as a digital camera. You use the Visual Park software that comes with it to edit, mess around with, and email the pictures. It can also be used as a webcam. I've used mine as a webcam to video/talk with friends quite a few times, but haven't used it lately. I've been getting an itch to use it again. It sits here on top of the VGA monitor I use for DC. There used to be a server in Japan that you could connect to and video conference with several people at once, but now you have to use the direct connect feature. It's like the Saturn Netlink, in that, you have to dial a person's phone number and pay any charges. With most long-distance companies charging about $0.05/minute it's definitely worth it. However, I mostly use it with friends who have unlimited long distance.

Also, you can simply record videos and email them to peolple, (no phone calls involved). You don't need the Visual Park software to watch the videos. Any Dreampassport (and I believe Dreamkey) will receive them as an email with a video attachment that you can watch.

BTW, I'd LOVE to see some software written for the Dreameye!

-Ex