Use your eyeToy as a webcam on a PC
Updated 4th Feb 2007!
Today I received my shiny new silver PS2 eyeToy and Play3 software. Bit of a spur of the moment purchase from eBay (saved about a tenner from the high-street price).
While watching a company webcast, I wondered whether the eyeToy works as a USB webcam on the PC. Well, it does, and I found a driver to make it work fully on XP.
The good news is that although I’ve got the ‘new’ silver eyeToy (which has a weird model number) the SLEH-00031 driver on the following site works just fine – even the audio works.
5 mins after plugging it in, it was working on Skype. Good luck!
The original link I pasted here is now dead. I’ve found some more drivers which work well now.
You can read a forum post about it here, or you can just click here to download the file directly. This will work with all versions of the EyeToy; just make sure you read the readme file if you have an older EyeToy as you have to rename a file to make it work. Enjoy!
Note: I’ve also uploaded a copy of the EyeToy drivers to my server – but please don’t use that unless the link above breaks at some point!
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August 19th, 2006 at 9:15 am
I got a Silver EyeToy from kelkoo.com and in the package came a silver EyeToy and instructions to use the EyeToy on the PS2 I have tried loads and loads of drivers for the silver EyeToy but they just aren’t working at all!! Do you think it will be better if I just get a proper webcam??
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Hi Tom,
thanks for that worked a treat after all the others that didn’t!
please visit my site and contact me, I would like to offer this driver there if you have no objections.
thank you Steve
September 19th, 2007 at 12:48 am
After looking at about 20 pages containing information and broken links about the eyetoy driver. I just wanna say thank you for having a working link on your website.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
OMG THANK YOU FINALLY
September 19th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
jeez man ur a legend