{"id":15262,"date":"2011-11-02T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-patents-biometric-control-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15262-sony-patents-biometric-control-designs","title":{"rendered":"Sony patents biometric control designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The patent suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11859-Sony-Computer-Entertainment\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Sony<\/a> may be investigating control platforms which take into account users&#8217; vital signs while they are playing.<\/p>\n<p>The concept is reminiscent of technology which <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11857-Nintendo\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Nintendo<\/a> admitted to investigating in 2009, whereby it would create peripherals that monitor players&#8217; pulses and incorporate the results into gameplay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/biometric_ps_move_controller_391912649.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The application for the patent was actually filed back in December 2010, but shows diagrams for three different biometric controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the devices look like biometric enabled versions of the DualShock 3 controller and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19896-Playstation-Move\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Term Information\">PlaySation Move<\/a> controller, and the third resembles a handheld gaming device.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/biometric_psp_810406178.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The patent description speaks of controllers which monitor players&#8217; bio-signals and incorporate the data into gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of potentially interesting directions that developers could run with this sort of technology, adjusting gameplay to manipulate players&#8217; physical reactions and so on.<\/p>\n<p>However, the most likely candidate for this sort of technology would sadly be fitness orientated applications and games.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source:<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2011\/11\/01\/sony-patent-reveals-biometric-ps3-controller-and-handheld\/  \" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> Siliconera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19866-Sony-creating-it-s-own-quot-Vitality-Sensor-quot?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>Sony creating it&#8217;s own &#8220;Vitality Sensor&#8221;?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent patent for a biometric controller design has been spotted by Siliconera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}