The Eye Toy is a Logitech-developed camera designed by Oliver Wright as a PlayStation 2. It was released worldwide in 2003.
The Eye Toy is a color camera that uses a special form of recognition to process the actions of the players so they can play with the games via movement, sound via a microphone, and coloration. Richard Marks came up with the Eye Toy following a PS2 demonstration in San Jose, California, with the event featuring the demonstration the Game Developer's Conference during 1999 as he aimed to interface users of video games with a cheaply-priced camera and utilize the console's power to do it with Sony's American entertainment division hiring him as a Research and Development manager.
His efforts were seen by former vice president, Phil Harrison, of a Sony division for relations with 3rd-party companies as well as R&D. After Phil became a senior, he escorted Marks to Sony's London division to showcase the Eye Toy technology with Marks being partnered with Psygnosis employee Ron Festejo whose company merged with Sony's London division to become a new London branch where the device received its Working Title iToy there and received a public Playstation Experience showcase during August 2002 and utilized four Tech Demo Games as part of the demonstration. The release date of July 4 was set in stone for Europe in 2003 before being taken in by the American and Japanese divisions of Sony with the device seeing its American version released later that year on November 4 and later in Japan on Feb. 14 the following year. The system's front had a pair of LED lights with a blue light activated when the system is activated to show it can be used and a red light shining if the light is not enough in the room. The Eye Toy later gained a smaller and silver remodel that was only improved externally and worked like the original camera.
Games compactible with the Eye Toy:
- Buzz!: Quiz TV
- Buzz!: Quiz World
- Buzz!: The Mega Quiz
- Buzz!: The Music Quiz
- Buzz!: The Ultimate Music Quiz
- DanceDanceRevolution
- Dance Dance Revolution Extreme
- Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova
- Dance Dance Revolution X
- Dance Dance Revolution X2
- Dancing Stage Fusion
- EyeToy: AntiGrav
- EyeToy: Groove
- EyeToy: Kinetic
- EyeToy: Play Trilogy
- Eye Toy: Monkey Mania
- Formula One 05
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (EA)
- Sega Superstars (First game)
- The Sims 2
- Sing Star
- SingStar (original)
- SingStar 2007
- SingStar ABBA
- SingStar Dance
- SingStar Queen
- SpyToy
- Super Title 64 Advance: There are plenty of games with the system's name in them, usually at the beginning.
- Working Title: Was originally titled the iToy during development.