I was recently programming using the Ps3(Sony Playstation 3) Eye cam (they are cheap, nice fps, and so on…), and sometimes it is hard to gain access to the device and perform satisfactory sample image processing functions on the captured image.  A company called Code Laboratories provides the PS3 eye cam driver for using with common applications like NUI Group’s CCV , MSN, etc. And also a SDK for more advanced users to program their own applications, supporting even the use of multicam. The software package from the SDK comes even with some template projects for programming with Visual Studio(I did it myself on the Microsoft ViSual Studio 2010 – using Windows 7 64 bits- , and had no problems for running any of

them). For most of the users the necessary installers are provided by free, and also the use of it. But , if necessary there are some more advanced packages that may fit on your own application. Below, there is a more detailed explanation of each part of it taken from the company’s website.

The CL-Eye Platform Driver provides users a signed hardware driver which exposes supported cameras to third party applications such as Adobe Flash, Skype, MSN or Yahoo for video chat or conferencing. Two modes allow basic compatibility mode and a advanced mode for high frame rate development use.

Compatible Application:

Another great software pack is the CL3-eye sdk that provides full access and use of the ps3-eye cam device when programming your own applications, including support to multi-cam configurations.

The CL-Eye Platform SDK provides developers full access and control over camera usage and manipulation. The APIs provided are exposed as a standard C based functions for portability and ease of use, also included is the full source code of all sample applications that acts as a baseline testing framework.

The list of functionalities on the sdk are listed below:

SDk Code Laboratories

this is just an informative post , all content and rights are reserved to Code Laboratories.

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