No Sony are aliens. This was their first draft drawing of what they actually look like, and they forgot to do a public version drawing that looked like humans. They've accidentally exposed their true natures.

I woulda thought they could go for a cheap 3D option and just duct tape 2 PSEyes together. After all, I can see in 3D fine and I don't need to shoot out no thousands of infrared dots to get a 3D view of the world.

Nobody owns depth detection concept. MS owns a custom version of a clever implementation designed originally by a 3rd party. If I were Sony, I'd try to reduce costs using a single RGB+IR camera instead of two separed RGB and IR ones like Kinect. I'd also try something different from IR pattern projection and detection. Let's not forget that depth detection through the PSMove Dildo saves Sony additional efforts in many cases, but a camera with better depth detection is necessary if Sony doesn't want Kinect to have almost the exclusive for hands-free motion detection games. MS needs a stick for some games, Sony and Nintendo need an advanced depth detection camera for some others, and shame on Ninty and 3rd parties for not having developed more games for Balance Board, as for skiing, snowbording, yoga and some other sports and fitness games, posture and pressure detection are better than camera and/or stick based motion detection (BB + a stick inserted in a handlebar could be the definitive control scheme for bike simulation at an acceptable cost, without having to buy some expensive, niche and cumbersome bike-shaped input device)

They look nothing like that. Here's what they look like:

Why do people keep suggesting this is a new camera? It's not. Sony is patenting a method for developing a 3D user interface. There is nothing new about the camera technolgy that the current PS Eye doesn't already have.

It's not a Kinect clone, it's not even near the capability of Kinect, it's a 3D interface via a depth sensing camera. However, at near range the PS Eye can within a certain plane (as the patent suggests) depth through the RGB camera. It already does this.

It's a new method for a 3D interface, not a camera.

these copy figures again....

yeah, don't be fooled, it is not kinect, like move wasn't wii remote

WTF Sony

Exactly!! Everyone on this thread needs to read this and shut up!

i forgot to mention the GTTV video.

This. The Playstation mention of this patent was just one small part of the whole. This technology will probably mainly be used for smart TV's, if anything.

I apologize. It's the Semitic goddess Astarte, an adaptation of the of the Sumerian-Babylonian goddess Ishtar.

I'm gonna stick with alien. Though them goddesses probably were aliens, like her head isn't even attached to her body in that depiction.