Playstation Move: or how else would we have made the controller?

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Doobie_wop said:

joeorc said:

again here is another:

Invention: Magic wand for gamers

• 16:41 23 August 2005 by Barry Fox

For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled the world's weird and wonderful patent applications each week, digging out the most exciting, intriguing and even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is now available exclusively online. Please send us your feedback.

Magic wand

PlayStation gamers are always looking for exciting new ways to control the onscreen action, but using a camera to track a player's body movement has not worked reliably, admits Sony. The camera gets confused by other things in the room.

Sony's new idea is to plug a webcam into the console, and give the gamer a handheld wand similar to a pocket flashlight. The wand has a battery, a few mouse-like buttons and several different coloured LEDs that can be switched on and off in various combinations.

By pressing the buttons and waving the wand towards the webcam, the gamer can click to shoot aliens, drag-and-drop images on screen and navigate menus.

The webcam is tuned to see only pure bright colours and map their motion in space, so it can ignore ordinary room lights. And if two people have wands with different coloured LEDs, they can play against each other.

Read about Sony's gaming wand here (pdf format).

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7890

You sir, are amazing. In one thread you basically proved all those Sony doubters wrong.... I've also noticed how they all seem to be avoiding this thread.

That's no doubt, if Sony were to say this at their E3 conference man oh man, it would be interesting to say the least.  

I just hate all this Sony bashing lately, I'm not even a friggin Sony Fanboy.  It's just ridiculous what people think just because the Move looks similar and does what the Wiimote does, even possibly better.  In the end, just wait for the Move to release and then people can whatever they want (to an extent of course) of how bad it is.