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By Larry Darrell on Feb 27, 2016 at 8:40 am EST
Good news for fans of upcoming technology and VR enthusiasts, as new patents have emerged for a Sony gaming controller, which is in the form of a wearable glove. Sony filed these patents back in 2014, but they have just surfaced now, reports Gamespot.
It is believed this new glove will be used to control or interface with the PlayStation VR headset, although this has not been confirmed. It should also be noted that just because a company has filed a patent, it does not guarantee that the product will come to market anytime soon or at all.
Here are the device’s technical details for those curious engineer types out there. It utilizes what is called a “flex sensor,” which is a spread-out potentiometer, and estimates the overall resistance according to fingers’ movement. The device also makes use of a contact sensor to determine when fingers make contact.
Let’s talk about its applications; if the patents are anything to go by, it seems that Sony wants to bring hand gestures and motion-sensing to the world in a bigger way. Besides gaming, it has numerous business as well as medical applications. Imagine a business meeting where all participants wear gloves and are able to rotate, scale, and view documents and collaborate in real time.
It appears that Sony took inspiration from Robert Downey Jr.’s motion-sensing gloves in the third edition of Iron Man series; you can now imagine more possible applications. Use these gloves in tele-medicine domain and we get medicine professionals operating patients from distance.
If you were into gaming back in 1989, The Power Glove would most certainly come to mind. It was a Nintendo peripheral, but was developed independently, and has now become an icon of the 90’s gaming scene.
A question that comes to mind is that if Sony filed these patents in 2014, why have they revealed it now? Has the company been secretly working on this glove or was this project put on hold due to lack of hype or demand? It could be possible that with the recent emergence of VR technology, Sony believes that it is finally time to unveil the “Minority Report VR Glove,” or whatever it will be called.
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