Overlook your telephone cameras and laptop computer built-ins; your subsequent webcam might be your outdated Recreation Boy Digicam. The workforce (form of) bringing this peripheral into the trendy age is Epilogue. The corporate makes the GB Operator, which lets folks play authentic Recreation Boy, Recreation Boy Advance and Recreation Boy Colour cartridges on a present PC or a Steam Deck.
Right this moment, Epilogue introduced that it’s engaged on an replace that may make the Recreation Boy Digicam right into a webcam, however one which’s a fuzzy, lo-fi, 16 kilopixel expertise. The magic occurs by the Playback emulator app that powers the GB Operator.
“We now have a dwell feed from the Recreation Boy Digicam, however nonetheless have to fine-tune some issues and permit for configuration choices,” the corporate stated. “We wished to share this replace as a result of it was thrilling to see it lastly work, and [we] cannot wait to see everybody having enjoyable with it. It is the worst and the most effective webcam you may ever have.”
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