Skip to Content

Listen to the Joystiq Podcast (because your ears can't read)
AOL Games

Sony's newest motion sensing patent

Sony's world hasn't been getting rained on by sunshine as of late. It would appear that everything they've done over the past year has ended in one form of disaster or another. However, it would seem that Sony is going to get a bit of good news.

According to patent #0060282873, Sony has apparently one-upped the now familiar Wii remote. Combining LED lights and what appears to be the EyeToy, Sony has created a control mechanism that appears to allow not just for full-range controller motion, but also allows the player's body movements to add to the input. Not only that, it would appear that the entire mechanism is different enough to avoid a serious legal challenge by Nintendo -- LED travels the other direction -- and Interlink Electronics -- their contraption doesn't use a camera.

Sony is certainly jumping all over the whole motion control craze, having filed two different methods previously. By cornering the motion sensing market, it would appear Sony is performing a preemptive strike for the PS4 generation; this would put pressure on Microsoft to come up with a new way of handling motion sensitivity and almost forcing Nintendo to keep the Wiimote as-is.

[Via Engadget]

Tags: playstation 3, playstation 3 patent, playstation patent, Playstation3, Playstation3Patent, PlaystationPatent, PS3, PS3 sixaxis, Ps3Sixaxis, sixaxis, sony patent, SonyPatent, wii remote killer, wiimote killer, WiimoteKiller, WiiRemoteKiller

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Joystiq Features





Featured Galleries

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces

New Games This Month: July 2009

New Games This Month: July 2009

Grandmaster Flash in DJ Hero (PS3/360/Wii)

Grandmaster Flash in DJ Hero (PS3/360/Wii)

Battlestations: Pacific Mustang and Carrier DLC packs

Battlestations: Pacific Mustang and Carrier DLC packs

Heroes Over Europe (PC/PS3/360)

Heroes Over Europe (PC/PS3/360)

Quake Arena Arcade

Quake Arena Arcade

Dreamkiller

Dreamkiller

Treasure World (DS)

Treasure World (DS)

Doom Resurrection

Doom Resurrection

 


Joystiq Podcast


New episodes every Friday! Now playing: Joystiq Podcast 01776, for Saturday, July 4.



Archive | RSS | iTunes

Autoblog

Urlesque

Download Squad

Engadget

Massively

Asylum

Wow.com

Engadget HD

Big Download