Could This Be PS4's Secret Weapon?

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Mazty said:

Stefl1504 said:

Mazty said:

It is though becoming a more and more redundant feature of gaming. The xbox went from 4 wired ports down to 2 and this generation, like the next, will focus on internet gaming. 

Fighting games and platformers are a much smaller market. Plus using current MS technology, they can actually emit two different pictures from one monitor to different viewers e.g. you see a flower, guy next to you sees a skull. 

 

With 4k resolutions on the horizon, it's not unreasonable to expect people to move their heads, or if the next-box has 16 cores, eyetracking  may be feasible. 

@ bolded

AFAIK the technology to display two different images for two different people on one screen is not patented by microsoft... it is patented by... hummm... I don't remember but it is one of the major TV producers...

Amazing the know-it-all attitude you have when you obviously don't know what I'm talking about:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/microsoft-research/all/1

Not so sure about this claim
"When the team combined eye-tracking technology with collimated light aimed at each eye, they created “the world’s first steerable autostereoscopic 3-D display,” as Bathiche calls it."

As it's available already
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20079160-1/lg-d2000-glasses-free-3d-monitor-tracks-your-eyes/
and also in Toshiba and Eon reality laptops, they all claim to be the first of course.
It seems the cutting edge research on this front is coming from Korea http://spie.org/x83143.xml

Those only track 1 user so far, but simply disabling the tracking would split the image for 2 users, the same as is done in car navigation systems where the driver sees the sat nav while the passenger can watch tv on the same display.

The wedge display looks promising but still seems to be in the experimental stage.

However back on topic, headtracking would make games a little more immersive and you don't need a new display. It will be a while before glasses free multi user eye tracking autostereoscopic displays become mainstream. Hopefully somebody will think of a good name for them by then :)