Looks like the folks at Sony and PlayStation are literally going bananas with their next concept for a PS5 controller, as a patent was registered in which objects like a mug, a pen, or yes even a banana can be used as a controller for the PS5.
As the patent explains, the concept sounds like the makings of a new controller device for the system the works in conjunction with PSVR. Images were even shared by PlayStation that described how an object as simple as a banana could be used to play a game — and that’s literally where it’s left to the imagination of the player on how that works.
A system for generating video game inputs, the system comprising: an input unit operable to obtain images of a passive non-luminous object being held by a user; an object detector operable to detect the passive non-luminous object being held by the user in the obtained images; wherein the object detector is configured to detect an area in the image corresponding to the passive non-luminous object based on the pixels corresponding to the object and not based on a physical identifier that has been added to the object; an object pose detector operable to detect changes in pose of the passive non-luminous object based on the obtained images of the object; wherein the object pose detector is configured to detect the pose of the passive non-luminous object based on at least one of (i) a contour detection operation and (ii) the output of a machine learning model that has been trained to detect the poses of passive non-luminous objects in images; and a user input generator operable to generate a user input based on detected changes in the pose of the passive non-luminous object, and to transmit an indication of the generated user input to a video game unit executing an instance of a video game, so as to update the display of a virtual object in the video game in accordance with the generated user input.
It would be desirable if a user could use an inexpensive, simple and non-electronic device as a video game peripheral,” the application reads. “The present disclosure seeks to address or at least alleviate some of the above-identified problems.
As technology progresses and video game developers look for more innovative ways to present playing video games to society, using common objects like a banana doesn’t sound like a far fetched idea at all. The only thing left to see is how Sony executes this ambitious patent idea — and it looks like it will define the future of PSVR if that is indeed working in tandem with the concept. Of course seeing that this is a patent, it by no means is an indication that it will actually happen.
In related news, the PlayStation Store will discontinue TV and Movie purchases and rentals beginning on August 31.
that is one way to solve joystick drift.
So now I can not make Why are you hitting yourself simulator using an human as controller.
Dam those patents.