PS4 CAMERA required to play some titlesYou can actually do some clever things with itBroadcastingItIt’s a solid piece of equipment and it’s in demandThe PlayStation Camera seems to be about on par with the original Xbox 360 Kinect in terms of recognizing players' movements. Granted, that's just based on a single game, and it's a game that was designed to use the PlayStation Camera in the first place: The Playroom.
Specifications
Key Features
The Camera is quite good at detecting faces, even with multiple people in the room.
Once it's had a look around it asks you to point out for it which face is yours, and then you're run through a one-time program that will help the system recognize your face automatically later on.
Works as advertised
The Playroom is amusing, Voice commands work well, Compact and attractive
Luckily for those who decide they just can't live without it, the PlayStation Camera is a sleek little accessory.
The only marking on the new PlayStation Camera is a small "PS" logo on one side, where no one will ever see it. In fact, most people will probably never notice it sitting by your TV.
It should fit nicely into most players' entertainment systems, whether on its own or with the officially licensed (but not officially included) PS Camera clip.
The clip may be worth it if your living room setup doesn't have any room for the small Camera. It features a minuscule nub and a sticky pad that allow it to snap easily and securely to the bottom of the Camera, and three firm but adjustable segments that let it wrap around a TV's upper edge.
This should allow the clip to work with most living room setups. And between the old and new Kinects, the Wii/Wii U's sensor bar, the PS3 Eye, and the new PlayStation Camera, power gamers' environments are getting far too cluttered with cameras, so elevating one might be necessary or at least more aesthetically pleasing.
And even if the PS4 Camera is up high it will see your space with ease; it doesn't mechanically tilt on its own, like the old Xbox 360 Kinect would, but it can be rotated independently from the clip so that you can tilt it up or down to suit your setup.
Once the PlayStation Camera is plugged into the back of your PS4 you'll probably forget that it's there - until it comes time to use it, that is.
When you log into the PS4 for the first time the console will check whether you have a PlayStation Camera and ask whether you want to run face recognition setup. It will tell you to brighten the room and sit a certain distance away from the Camera, and then away you go.
t's not even really a game; it's more a tech demo. It has five functions, only three of which are actually interactive. Of those, only one is really a game, and it's entertaining for about five minutes tops.