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A patent filed by Sony depicting a “Position-Dependent Gaming 3-D controller, and Handheld as a Remote” has been unearthed by Venturebeat.
The handheld tablet-like device appears to interact with the games console and other players’ tablet controllers, with one of the patent images projecting bionic body parts and a gun over the user.
The patent description reads:
“Methods and systems for using a position of a mobile device with an integrated display as an input to a video game or other presentation are presented. Embodiments include rendering an avatar on a mobile device such that it appears to overlay a competing user in the real world. Using the mobile device’s position, view direction, and the other user’s mobile device position, an avatar (or vehicle, etc.) is depicted at an apparently inertially stabilized location of the other user’s mobile device or body. Some embodiments may estimate the other user’s head and body positions and angles and reflect them in the avatar’s gestures.”
Filed in 2010, the patent could be an idea for the PlayStation 3 or a future console – or indeed may never go beyond the idea stage.
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