I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious

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I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious
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This is magnificent.

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By the thumbnail it looks very hipster

And from the article, way lazier than I thought it would be. He's just got an Analogue Pocket and he's running it through the dock via HDMI. I have an analogue pocket and a Game Boy Camera. I could, and have done this. I used to do this back in the early 00s with a SNES, Super Game Boy and a video capture card during the MSN messenger days!!!!

I was expecting him to actually have something cool and technical, like wiring up proper video out to a Game Boy, but no. Just a hipster writing as if a million people haven't already done the exact same thing.

Edit: fwiw I have actually added a native video out, VGA and composite to a stock DMG game boy before. Used a bennvenn board with a cpld. Maybe I was the true hipster all along

But a million people haven’t done that with an iPad, because until now no iPad was able to receive video input. That’s the point of the article.

I was expecting him to actually have something cool and technical That's what I thought when I first started reading the (long) article. "Oh, how is he gonna connect that camera up to the iPad over USB? Must be some cool, custom interface." Nope, just a bunch of off the shelf hardware connected together. Meh.

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Yeah, I'm always a little disappointed when a cool title turns out to be a workaround that means the title is correct on a technicality. I guess they thought of it, did it and then wrote an article so there's at least some effort involved.

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This would make for a cool filter