Playstation Eye is set to revolutionize the experience of both interactive gaming and online communication on the Playstation Network. Designed specifically to work with the next generation of social gaming titles and new services being developed for PS3, key features of the Playstation Eye include a sophisticated microphone with the ability to reduce background noise and focus on spoken word for smoother, more accurate speech recognition, faster frame rate for improved tracking, responsiveness and smoothness, two position zoom lens for close-up and full body options, and EyeCreate editing software, which allows users to save, edit and add cool visual effects to photos, video and audio clips. EyeCreate also enables user to capture videos and audio clips directly to your PS3's hard disk drive and access a range of different capturing modes, including slow motion and time-lapse. 56º or 75º Field of View zoom lens 2.1 F-stop, <1% distortion, fixed focus (25cm to 8 at 75º FOV)
Customer Rating: 
Summary: The games for it are a SHAME
Comment: I bought it to use as a device to interact with games. Like the Wii Fit do for the Nintendo Wii. Well, what a surprise when I bought from the Playstation Store all the games available for it. Those games are SO BORING, and so Stupd. In one of the games you just move your finger and with that you feed some fish in Aquarium; in other game you move your finger and with that you direct some birds around the air. You get the idea of how bad the games are for this good quality camera? The camera have great resolution for video chat, but that's it. Don't plan to use it for play games, because you will fell ripped off.
Customer Rating: Summary: Good Little Moderately Priced Web Cam
Comment: I had the PS2 Eye Toy, which worked with the PS3 (For anyone considering a low cost alternative these sell used for about $5 and are readily available).
I decided to "Upgrade" for the zoom, better low light performance, built in microphones and for the downloadable software which will only work with the "new" Eye.
The video quality is definitely better. I run a projector so the light I have is minimal. The chat feature on PS3 sets a white background and this (on a 100" screen) is more than adequate to illuminate me on my old sofa. Unfortunately most of the other stuff (Fish tank and Editing Software) need more light to work properly).
As far as the microphone - you would be far better served with a Bluetooth headset. The 4 microphone configuration works decent, but the (output) volume seems low, it should be very close to you if you don't want to annoy the person on the other end whom you are communicating with.
For what this thing sells for I do believe it to be well worth the money, just don't expect it to do magic. The PS3 video of this little device makes it seem better than it is - but that could be said for basically all advertising.
On a side note your internet connection speed and the Sony servers are of more importance for a decent video chat session that the camera and microphone themselves.
Additionally "Home" currently has no web cam support and has limited (audio) chat capabilities. It's still in Beta though...
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Customer Rating: Summary: PS3 Eye
Comment: I bought this item when it was available through "Gold Box" deal of the day. For 20$ its ok. I was expecting more from this product. The camera is mediocre and the mic isn't much better. I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 for my computer and maybe I'm a bit spoiled with it's abilities. If you want voice chad get a blue tooth head set don't depend on this. If you can stand dull colored, badly lit, ok mic then go for it. I gave it 3 stars for the price i got it at. Any more than 20$ then it would have gotten 2 stars or less.
Customer Rating: Summary: I Don't Care For It Much
Comment: I bought this for my PS3, and the device is a bit of a disappointment. The image is grainy and appears to reverses the actual image taken when viewed on the monitor. I bought it to work with Aquatopia on PS3, but the interface does not work very well. I felt I needed this toy as I was excited about my new PS3, but now I can say it was kind of a waste of money ( the camera and Aquatopia software both).
Customer Rating: Summary: If you don't have Little Big Planet, Don't Buy This
Comment: The main reason for getting the PS3 Eye is to use for capturing photos to use in Little Big Planet. But even then, there are rumors of allowing you to import your photos from memory cards. So you may not need it down the road.
I downloaded the free Eye Create software from the Playstation Network. (This accessory is useless if you don't have access to the free Plaaystation Network since it doesn't come with a software disc).
So this product should be evaluated in conjunction with the Eye Create software since that's what you need to record photos and video. I found the software to have very awkward controls. And you don't even capture photos/video at full screen, it's only part of the screen. Plus the editing features such as effects filters are nothing that you really haven't seen before. If you have a Macbook or iMac with a built-in iSight camera, then you will not be impressed at all by this software since it is much more limited. I was also hoping to record some time lapse of my living room. The video seems to stop recording after an hour of recorded content. If you're recording non-time lapse video, you can record up to 45 minutes worth. This is true even your PS3 harddrive is empty since there is a size cap within this software.
If you were to compare the Eye Create software to shareware that you can download for your webcam, then this would be shareware that you would not want to pay for. It's that bad.
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