Sony's New Camera Lets You Use Your Finger As A Gun?
See Full ImageWe all remember laughing at that part of the KB PlayStation Move commercial, remember? Ah, but technology knows no bounds; it presses forward.
Microsoft's Kinect boasts controller-free movement, while the Move still requires that you hold some electronic device in your hand. But maybe Sony is trying to do the controller-free thing, too...whether you like it or not.
PlayStation LifeStyle has been checking on various patents filed by Sony Computer Entertainment for a 3D depth sensing camera that would be similar to Kinect. Click the link to see the latest uncovered image; it shows you how to use your fingers as a gun. And here's part of the description:
"For example, the user may be able to shoot by different hand gestures, may be able to reload the gun with different gestures, and the different positions or orientations of the user’s hand may cause different graphical renderings of the user or gun on the display screen when the user is interacting with a particular game program."
Kinect doesn't really do exact finger tracking so this piece of intriguing technology would - theoretically - be a step up. But to be perfectly honest, I can't quite get my head wrapped around either Move or Kinect. Just gimme my old-fashioned controller.
Tags: sony, sce patent, video game patent, depth sensing camera
12/26/2012 10:20:17 PM Ben Dutka
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WorldEndsWithMe
Wednesday, December 26, 2012 @ 11:12:58 PM
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Beamboom
Thursday, December 27, 2012 @ 4:08:47 AM
But this is typical when new technology is introduced. There was a time when websites were made to mimic physical magazines as much as possible too. Before they figured out how to use the media.
In fact, this is how I think about too linear games too; they try to make it into a movie instead of using the unique properties of this technology.
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Thursday, December 27, 2012 @ 2:29:14 AM
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i love the idea of motion cameras.
id be great to be able to throw away those expensive pieces of plastic and just use your body.
not to mention have to worry about buying a extra controller for when you have people over, and you never ever have enough.
id be allot more fun and engrossing too.
my problem with them though is there requirements.
you MUST have a MASSIVE room, you MUST have nothing on the floor not even a rug!
you MUST wear these types of clothes, you MUST have less than this amount of people, you MUST be this distance from the camera, you MUST be this angle from the camera.
all this fussing spoils it.
IF, or should i say when, they can get rid of all these annoyances, and increase the accuracy to 100%, than ill be all for it!
thats another problem, you can imagine how many people are going to get pissed off with movement recognition, especially in MP.
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Sir Dan
Thursday, December 27, 2012 @ 7:42:23 AM
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jugheadjones
Thursday, December 27, 2012 @ 3:28:48 PM
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LowKey
Friday, December 28, 2012 @ 11:10:46 AM
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JROD0823
Friday, December 28, 2012 @ 3:17:13 PM
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I agree with World, but I also think that some controllerless motion games are good too, like dance games, and I think that there is potential for others to be fun without the use of controllers as well.
Hopefully with this camera patent, Sony is in the process of making other genres fun and intuitive to play without controllers, and hopefully it draws more casual gamers away from Xbox and Kinect to PlayStation and Move.
Some, but not all gamers need a reason to get off their asses and move a little instead of only exercising their thumbs.
I dread to see the next couple generations of children if they never have a reason to exercise while still enjoying video games. There are tons of people out there nowadays that could care less if their kids exercise, as long as they stay out of their hair. I swear, half of the children I see in public look like walking beach balls. I feel so sad for them, and their inevitable health complications.
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BikerSaint
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 @ 11:01:41 PM
But just you watch.....the 1st mass shooting after this comes out a specific FPS/TPS game, the gun control zealots will not only cry foul about our games even more, they'll also want to start regulating gamer's finger movements too.
Last edited by BikerSaint on 12/26/2012 11:04:11 PM