{"id":86608,"date":"2016-02-29T12:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86608"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:40:03","slug":"sony-is-working-on-a-playstation-vr-glove-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86608-sony-is-working-on-a-playstation-vr-glove-controller","title":{"rendered":"Sony is working on a PlayStation VR glove controller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony Computer Entertainment’s\u00a0latest US patent<\/a> suggests the eventual release of a glove\u00a0controller for PlayStation VR.<\/p>\n

A glove controller, you say? Doesn’t this sound like we’re repeating history?<\/p>\n

We seem to recall Nintendo’s Power Glove being a fantastic success. Oh no, wait, it was a colossal failure.<\/p>\n

How would this work exactly? The patent does provide some depth about how this actual glove controller interface will function, but we’re still a little sceptical.<\/p>\n

The patent<\/a>\u00a0itself is titled\u00a0\u201cGlove Interface Object\u201d and was\u00a0originally filed on October 17, 2014. However, the patent was only published to the US patent site last week Thursday.<\/p>\n

\"PlayStation<\/a><\/p>\n

The glove controller promises to have you interact, be it touching, holding or whatever tickles your fancy, with virtual objects displayed on a screen.<\/p>\n

The diagram below is supposed to demonstrate how the glove controller might operate. In reality, it’s really just a diagram of how virtually every motion-sensitive, 360-degree tracking peripheral operates.<\/p>\n

\"Sony<\/a>

Source: USPTO<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

It’s hardly innovate or revolutionary. Fortunately, further information can be found in the full abstract summary of the glove controller:<\/p>\n

A glove interface object is provided, comprising: at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of the glove interface object; at least one contact sensor configured to generate contact sensor data identifying a contact between a first portion of the glove interface object and a second portion of the glove interface object; a communications module configured to transmit the flex sensor data and the contact sensor data to a computing device for processing to determine a finger position pose of the glove interface object, the finger position pose being applied for rendering a virtual hand in a view of a virtual environment on a head-mounted display (HMD), the virtual hand being rendered based on the identified finger position pose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This next diagram gives you a closer look at the inner-workings of the glove controller’s interface.<\/p>\n

\"Sony<\/a>

Source: USPTO<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

The device\u00a0is actually wireless and contains wearable bracelets for both hands.<\/p>\n

Each bracelet features an attached LED light that identifies the location and orientation of each glove, by using images captured by the the PlayStation Camera.<\/p>\n

It is speculated that this technology will be similar to what can be found in\u00a0PlayStation Move controllers. The LED lights for each\u00a0glove controller\u00a0have adjustable colour selection and brightness settings to name a few.<\/p>\n

The bracelets contain a small sensor data CPU as well as a bevy of sensors and buttons for\u00a0different kinds of user inputs, measuring anything from\u00a0biometrics to pressure sensitivity.<\/p>\n

Just as like the\u00a0adjustable LED lights found in\u00a0the glove controller, it’s\u00a0\u00a0speculated that\u00a0PlayStation VR’s head-mounted display will feature LED lights that offer similar functionality to the gloves, with location and orientation tracking.<\/p>\n

At this moment in time, there’s no suggested release timeframe for the glove controller.<\/p>\n

Will the release date be scheduled\u00a0at the same time as the PlayStation VR headset? Only time will tell at this point.<\/p>\n

We’re left wondering whether this could end up as Sony’s very own version of the\u00a0Power Glove.<\/p>\n

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Source: Fudzilla<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

More On PlayStation VR<\/strong><\/h3>\n

European retailers suggest PlayStation VR will cost at least R8,000<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon lists PlayStation VR for R12,000 plus, albeit briefly<\/a><\/p>\n

PlayStation VR to cost between R6,400 and R9,700, suggests analysts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sony Computer Entertainment’s latest US patent reveals that they aim to do what Nintendo never could, develop a power glove that works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":86624,"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":[17396,1969,1239,15880,16735,1853,16867],"class_list":["post-86608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-glove-controller-interface","tag-news-2","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation-vr","tag-ps-vr","tag-playstation4","tag-psvr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608","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\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86628,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86608\/revisions\/86628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}