Some quick notes on setting up a playstation eye web-cam on OSX.
I have been testing external web cameras for use in interactive installations and multitouch contexts. I have an external i-sight– which is great but has been dropped enough times to be a little sketchy. I recently acquired a playstation eye. The former is firewire, the latter is USB2. i-sight is plug and play in OSX — but to get the playstation camera running you will need to download a driver — I am using macam — the standard for OSX USB camera support.
Macam is a free USB driver for OSX — latest version supports playstation eye. Macam has a standalone app that will let you see the image, record stills and video.
If you wish to use the camera with CCV (community core vision — AKA t-beta) then you may need to manually add the macam component to your library. IT must go in root — /Library/quicktime/ . Delete old versions of the component if you are upgrading. Restart CCV and the image from the camera should appear in the CCV preview windows.