New Sony Head Mountable Display system Patent appears online for what is sure to be the rumored PlayStation 4 Oculus Rift rival. The HMD will also use the PlayStation 4 Eye for Augmented Reality & motion tracking.
You can check out the patent drawing below.
From Xfire: "Imagine a PlayStation that could sense and react to gamer's joy, frustration, or boredom."
technically this could be used to enhance games. Struggling with something and just broke your controller. We see you, dial down the difficulty to noob so you can finally have that dopamine rush of excitement which comes from finally beating that boss...
I mean, I agree, no thanks, but patents like these tend to be rather premature and something that wouldn't come to fruition for a few+ more decades. Proof of concept and trademark so others can't capitalize on the idea... Even then, it did come to fruition it still requires the player to have a camera in their room or a headset on. Long as they don't force something like this similar to what XB did with Kinect then to each their own I suppose. It's a hard pass for me though, and if they tried to force something like this on a PS console, see ya later PS.
Turn up. I'm ready. Let's open the flood gates, I'm in a hurry to some something "actually crazy" in gaming.
Sony's Virtual Reality Head Mountable Display Day One ! XD
Exciting times to be a gamer.
Thanks Oculus Rift for opening the door
This'll probably be as successful as 3D TV's and PS Move! Stop Sony, just stop. We wanna use controllers.
It will definitely get a lot of interest but Sony have to pitch it at an affordable attractive price if they are to make a serious go of it.