LGR Oddware: Reality Fusion GameCam from 1999 

imagine being in 1999, when most of us had only one computer shared by the whole family: you buy this thing, bring it home, install the driver and screw up the operating system 😂😂😂

The farting is a cool feature of windows input event routing system. If no process anywhere is servicing the mouse and keyboard event queue, then when it reaches a full queue, it emits one fart for each keyboard or mouse event that was discarded.

You know it’s getting serious, when a tripod becomes the weapon!

Watching you beat a mutant Cliff-sumo baby with a tripod stand is legitimately one of the funniest things I've seen in a while (and a sentence I don't know has ever been said before).

I love how the second you pick up the tripod to start swinging it, you nearly blast the table with it. I'm surprised the tripod, the table, and the ceiling fan made it out of this episode alive, lol.

You beating the absolute hell out of your sumo baby counterpart with a tripod, has to be the funniest thing I've seen on this channel. thanks for the unexpected laugh 🤣

I worked on this. It was super fun. You can see the back of my head in the garage shot. I’m amazed how well researched this video is. Nice job!

This was hilarious. Fascinating forerunner of today's video filters and effects we take for granted on TikTok etc. What would Freud have said about Clint using a camera tripod to attack his adultbaby-self LMAO

I never in my life would I have imagined I would see Clint from LGR beat up a sumo baby that has his likeness with a closed tripod. This episode certainly delivered!!

Frankly, it didn't look worse then what I often see during video conferences at my work... laptop cams didn't make too much progress in past 20 years - or at least this is what manufacturers sell to us.

No one ever believes me when i tell them i used to have online classes with my teacher and classmates in the early 2000's that were practically identical to today's zoom classes, we even had music class where everyone would play their recorders all at once over the mic. I think the online class program was called Centra and was done over satellite internet on an old IBM and CRT. I grew up on a remote cattle station in Australia so i went to KSOTA (Kimberley School of The Air) so all learning was done remotely, for my first couple of years of school we had classes (including music class) over a shortwave ham radio. Edit: I should clarify that we weren't doing video call classes until about 2007 or 2008, when i said identical to zoom i meant in the online class and learning aspect.

Thank you! I had this in the early 2000's! Eventually Logitech added it to all of their webcams. My nephews grew up with this. I eventually just used a pencil to fight in the karate game. We named him Mr. Pencil. We drew a mustache on him. Thanks once again for showing this because no one ever knows what I'm talking about when I mention this.

5:56 - Super-badass to have an interactive 360 image from ANY year in the 1990’s. Thank you, LGR, for always thoroughly researching every aspect of the topics on which you speak.

This is one of the most enjoyable LGR videos ever. Me and my kids were laughing our heads off at how ridiculous some of this was, Brilliant!!

"Move chairs and breakable objects AWAY from your computer!" Discounting the fact that the computer is _also_ a breakable object (especially when someone is swinging a tripod).

16:20 Well if this ten seconds of video doesn't summarize Oddware in the most perfect way then I truly don't know what would!

7:53 I have vivid memories of playing EyeToy on PS2 as a child. It was amazing to be able to control it with my body for the first time back then.

Oh, man, thanks for the laughs! The blue screens of death, mouse farts and playing around with the camera itself put me in stitches. This is truly a fun piece of oddware. You definitely need to make a weird music video with the trippy effects at the end, some "fresh oats" sound effects thrown in there, Duke Nukem lines and that sequence where you were beating the sumo baby that had your face with a tripod. Guaranteed to be one of the top hits at the summer music festivals. PS. That sumo baby is straight nightmare fuel, I swear! But for some reason, you just can't look away from it.

As someone studying and wanting to get deeper into the action recognition area of computer vision and artificial intelligence, its still absolutely nuts to me to see a piece of consumer software and equipment almost as old as i am thats capable of doing that much!

Clint fighting an oversized karate-sumo baby Clint with a tripod is pure gold. This is the reason i subbed, totally.

You are cool 😎

This is so damn 90s! The colors, the interface, everything! "Surprise" was probably nothing more than a randomizer putting you in some context. From a perspective as software-dev, this is probably as far as you can get with USB 1.1 (still astonished about the frame rate) and a PC of that time. No AI/ML there yet to distinguish you from the background, let alone processing power. I would have probably been able to get near these results a few years later, and wish I could have been part of this!

When entry level digital cameras were taking photos that looked like they were from the bottom of a soup bowl, this is extremely impressive.

Amazon used to have ads in print?? That's wild. I mean it makes sense when I think about it, but I would never have thought about it.

The good old days of the blue screen of death. Amazing how Microsoft has done such a fantastic job keeping it alive.

Changing your aura to green reminded me of a fallout 1 npc getting targeted during combat

Great video! I'm so glad you dug this up. And thanks for the plug and kind words, much appreciated.

Best oddware episode so far, it was great seeing Clint laughing his a** off haha

I was really hoping there was going to be an LGR Blerb on drywall repair after you got into it with the tripod.

Seeing Clint beating up his baby self with a tripod, is the funniest thing😂

I would love to see a 90's de-make of Beat Saber with this tech 😂

What surprises me more is the fact that in the 90's the tech for eliminate the background from a webcam footage without any extra software and hardware already existed and I though it was something that came in the last couple of years, pretty cool indeed.

I remember a field trip in the probably mid to late 90's to Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC where they had a beach ball volleyball thing like this. It was a 2 player game projected in full size on the wall so you were actually "hitting the ball" in "real life". It must have been pretty early tech as it didn't work nearly as well as it should of for a public interactive exhibit, but it did keep a bunch of us elementary schoolers occupied for a while.

Seeing Clint lose it over seeing himself in-game reminds me of when my fiance put me in Photo Dojo on the DSi

The sumo baby fight had me falling out of the chair laughing. That picture 😂😂

You playing volleyball against “yourself” and battling a sumo wrestler with a mask of your face is INSANE and beyond funny! I also remember going to a kids museum on trips when our family would visit my grandma and they also had that blue screen Mandala full body game. I distinctly remember me trying to block as many CGI soccer balls as I could and failing spectacularly 😂 That memory seemed like a fever dream and I was curious if you would mention that game in this video and I got very excited when you did!! I would really love to play that game again!

Really cool to see The Computer Chronicles mentioned and exampled in a current-day retro review!

That much progress in Skype is truly excellence in software development. Very neat stuff!

I remember having an Intel Create and Share camera from the same year with a similar software and game suite. Camera motion games, picture cards, and video web chats. I was really excited to get it as a 12 year old. It felt like the future. Played most of the games once, did one video call (which was post-stamped size and appropriately laggy for 56k dial-up), and I never really used the camera much after a month or two. 😂

Really loved this episode Clint, that volleyball scene genuinely had me laughing out loud. Also by the end I could see a few dots of sweat on your shirt, certainly looked like a workout and looked like you had a ton of fun making this episode 😂!

This is the essence of oddware. Amazing.

Advanced for its time, and of course led to our time. Good to see where it began (well, if not where it began, how the path to the present went)

AI-Animated-GIF-Clint trying to play volleyball is the best thing ever.

With modern browsers and pcs, and practically everyone having webcams, this could EASILY be made into a browser game. The janky cutouts and prerecorded move sets, meme faces, this could go so far. I want this to be a thing.

Well, this is a blast of the past! My dad had a Compaq Presario PC running Windows 2000, and it came with a Logitech webcam (different model, but somehow the quality of the image wasn't too far off from what you show in the video). It came with the Reality Fusion Software, same UI and all but oddly it rarely if ever gave me such severe technical issues. I used to play the Volleyball game a lot - creating your own avatar to compete against was as hilarious as shown in this video 😅. It also had the same basketball game, no different whatsoever. It did have one other different game though. Your image could "float" around in a glass cube structure suspended above earth, floating around this cube and bumping off the glass walls like the DVD logo screensaver. You could add bubbles to pop and interact with random objects floating on screen too. I realize after writing this down that it sounds like a fever dream, but for late 1900/early 2000s software it kind of was 😂

Seeing you enjoy this as much as you did, just proves, the 90's was truly special.

Been watching Clint since his soda poppin days. Nice seeing him laugh and having fun.

My dad got me one of these cameras for my 10th birthday! It was a clear-blue one, very thick and promised wonders with its scan technology. We couldn't make it work, no matter what we did. My dad blamed our outdated 98 PC, (it was 2000 tops, lol), and said he wanted to upgrade to Windows ME, since it was better and had the technology to run it. He bought ME just to cope with the frustration of this failed present. Imagine his surprise when the camera worked even less, now not even detecting it as a camera. That piece of junk was shoved into the cable drawer never to be seen again.

I just had one of the worst weeks of my life. Watching your video helped me smile again. LGR always provides a good time and has this uniquely positive vibe. Thank you & Greetings from Germany :)

I remember how everyone was blown away by the eye toy on ps2 when i got one for a really sweet deal, i got it by mistake, a bloke was tryna sell it at a toy store, but the owner didn't want it, he said he needed like $30 to buy something, so i walked to him, offered $30 and got it, it was a great toy, made the whole family happy.

I love how you do so much research for these things. God I didn't expect this one to be so damn FUNNY. I have never cracked up so hard at one of your videos.

I remember playing this in the early 2000s on a purple faced Compaq Presario. Bringing back some memories Clint!

4:40 Oh. My. God. I think you just unlocked a memory from my childhood of playing this game/watching it being played at the McWayne Science Center in Birmingham when I was just a little kid.

9:51 is funny because first it showed a 16 bit application error, then a 32 bit application error (in msgsrv32), then the blue screen is actually in the FILE SYSTEM driver of all things (vfat). The later exception 0e is a pagefault which can mean several things, like a page of memory being unavailable right now or the paging being violated (accessing ram that isnt being allowed to be accessed right now, like two applications writing in the same page at the same sorta time which is not ok) The "new bluescreen" wasn't actually a new one, it was 0e again

Best episode of LGR Oddware ever!!! Best moments were you beating the sumo baby with a tripod and playing volleyball against yourself. Comedy gold.

Love the increasing amounts of warp energy building during the video

Wow, for 1990s PC/webcam technology, that is pretty impressive. I remember the first "kinect" Systems coming out a decade later to be almost as janky...

My bro and I had this (or something very similar) as kids. Literal minutes of fun! I did end up using this webcam for many years after.

These sort of episodes are the best LGR episodes.

16:00 this sequence can not be unseen. It is etched into my retina's. Especially when you pick up the tripod and start attacking the ' baby you ' / Samurai warrior approximation of you. 😁🤣🙃😂Almost wet my pants laughing.

I remember playing a VR setup for Star Trek as an away mission, back in the late 90's at my science center/museum. Mind blown.

Boy, I remember seeing a demo setup at FutureShop for this. I never knew anyone that had this , but I for sure would have played it. I know ME gets a lot of hate, but the driver stability, especially with game controllers and USB stuff is far superior. It's why my ME rig is still going strong. Windows 98 SE was just bluescreen hell when trying to get SLI setup along with gravis gamepad controller. The jankiness and ability to play an psuedo evil you, is actually pretty cool. The fact it plays well enough on not really special hardware is amazing.

Thank you for the laughs, Clint! I really enjoyed this episode.

It took more than a decade of me being subscribed to LGR to see him fight a sumo baby version of himself with a tripod but here we are.

I was hoping you'd make a vid on this after seeing it in the background of one of the mouse videos. Software seems almost like if Vtube Studio was made in the 90s with specific hardware in mind rather than working with any run of the mill webcam. Pretty ahead of its time indeed.

This was great! That netball was massively hilarious, and that end fractal one with you dividing yourself into pieces and dancing in music videos was funny and awesome! Cheers for this dude!

that virtual vollyballing clint was the funniest shit i have seen in a while

Clint does a great job being entertaining , even for people who I know nothing about laptops and what not

After so many years of watching LGR, finally one of this oddwares that I really knew and played a few times

Thanks for reminding me that Nick Arcade, which I remember watching reruns on Nick Gas, had the video game portions made by Psygnosis, the devs behind Wipeout and many other games...

I belly cried at the V-ball AI opponent. Had to walk out of the room and calm down for 5 mins. Totally amazing.

Whoever makes the subtitles for LGR videos - thank you very much sir. Helps a lot for people like me who doesn't speak/understand English very well. 👍

Man the nostalgia. Not for this device at home but this was the exact style of capture they used to use at our local Science Center. They had a soccer game and basketball game that I completely remember and they looked exactly like this. So cool. It was my favorite thing to do there!

I remember when my nearby science museum had an exhibit come demonstrating games just like these. I believe the year was 2002 when I attended on a school trip and I remember a game where you were on a flying skateboard of some sort, moving your body up and down to dodge obstacles. The man running the game for us told me our schools would soon use them in the classroom. Still waiting.....

I had tears falling from laughter watching that volleyball scene, oh man, good stuff!

I’m amazed how well the software worked once it was running, I mean, the menus are navigatable, something the Kinect was never able to achieve

You swinging a tripod at your evil baby self is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on RU-vid

Truly the future! - some guy in the mid 90s

I can FEEL the New Balance and Home Depot in Clint's dad laugh during the V-Ball section. This thing is such 90s cheese, I adore it.

That music video thing is pretty cool. Honestly, if I had this as a kid I would be pretty impressed!

I've always loved Logitech. Solid brand for a good price. I will say, the karate game reminded me a little bit of a game on the Nintendo DSi called Photo Dojo. It came out 10 years after this, but you could take pictures of you or whomever in different poses and record custom sounds for them. Needless to say, hilarity ensued when I made my cats in the game

Thanks for this Clint, very interesting and also hilarious! I'm glad you managed to get it working after it kept destroying Windows, it was so worth it just so that we could all see you defeat a creepy baby sumo wrestler version of yourself by using a tripod 😂 also the volleyball section vs the AI of you lmao 🤣 The part that made me laugh the hardest was that "Be There" thing... Especially the people section... like what?? 🤣 I can imagine the laughs I woulda got out of this if I'd had one as a kid. As it was I remember having a lot of fun with the first webcam we got and that was just taking pictures with friends, we would have loved this!

ngl sometimes I watch your vids just for the cool jazz and smooth narration

I love the quick and dirty Mortal Kombat style animation creator. Hahaha

Can you even imagine setting this up as a kid in the late 90s? No google or anything. 😂

This is the greatest video on your channel. It's got windows blue screen of death farting, AI abominations, and a mutant karate baby beat down with a tripod LMAOOO

I love seeing how excited you are about this old stuff. It's ancient, uninteresting crap for the new generation, but it all had to start somewhere and the beginnings with all the problems really show how much farther we've gotten.

Clint beating the sumo baby guy with that tripod was hilarious, best thing I've seen all day.

I hope you're all settled in your new home! Happy to see more new content! I wouldn't mind a tour of the place if/when you have everything laid out the way you want it. I knew you mentioned it'd be a long process.

Oh hell yes, Uncle Clint comes back with something odd, forgotten and obsolete!

I love this channel soo much, thanks for keeping the world class entertainment space interesting Clint!

That prerendered 2D style of graphics is peak. I miss it dearly.

I would totally play this silly game with my family and friends. It looks like an absolute blast, in one of those "lack of control = wacky shenanigans" kind of way. Totally on-board!

Heck yeah I remember seeing these at my local CompUSA back in the day, but they were too expensive for me as a high school student, I did not get my first webcam till the middle of 2001 that I won in an eBay bid war for $45 that had the massive resolution of 320x240 and if I kept 2 AA in it, I could also use it as a crappy digital camera that held all of 24 images at that resolution, but if the batteries died I lost all the photos, and had no way to preview what I shot till I exported them to my PC when I got back home. Man how far we have come!!

Hey Clint, I'm grateful for your videos bud. They are informative and are equal parts of humor and nostalgia. They always brighten my mood.

Damn near 100k views in a day. Well deserved and always excited to see a new LGR video. Thanks for the awesome content as usual!

I do not miss the tech of the 90s nearly as much as I miss the optimism of the 90s itself ... especially since this february.

This technology wasn't even close to ready for prime time when the Kinect did it, and yea, every version of the tech from before that is even more grimy. There's no weird like late 90s and early 00s tech weird.

I laughed soooo hard at different parts of this video.... Thanks for showing us this Clint!

This was a particularly enjoyable episode, thanks Clint!