Dreameye
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Dreameye (ドリームアイ) is a digital camera released for the Dreamcast home video console by Sega. It was designed to be used both as a webcam and a digital still camera, and there were plans for games to involve the Dreameye. The Dreameye was released exclusively in Japan in September 2000, later being bundled with the Divers 2000 Series CX-1 Dreamcast console in 2001.
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Hardware
The Dreameye came with a microphone headset, a stand, batteries, software, a cable to connect the Dreameye to the Dreamcast and a Dreameye microphone plug card. The Dreameye takes 0.3 megapixels photos, though in order to send them via e-mail through the Dreamcast, the images need to be saved to a VMU, after which they would be resized to a resolution of 320x240px for sending.
While plans are thought ot have been put in place to incorporate the accessory with games, the only shipping product with Dreameye compatibility is Visual Park, which came bundled with the unit.
History
The Dreameye was first demonstrated at Milia 2000[3], with a live demonstration from Shoichiro Irimajiri, then-president of Sega.
Legacy
The Dreameye concept has lived on in such products as the Eye Toy and PlayStation Eye, for Sony's PS2 and PS3 respectively, and Microsoft's own Live Vision camera.
Promotional material
Physical scans
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External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): Dreamcast
- Article on Dreameye from IGN.com
- Website with info and pictures of Dreameye games and Dreameye's unveiling at the Tokyo Game Show (in Japanese)
References
- ↑ https://sega.jp/history/hard/dreamcast/devices.html (Wayback Machine: 2020-03-02 04:53)
- ↑ http://sega.jp/dc/hard/o_eye/ (Wayback Machine: 2007-10-15 15:00)
- ↑ Edge, "April 2000" (UK; 2000-03-20), page 12