Sony Working On Kinect Like Peripheral
A patent filing reveals this development.
A patent filed in late 2011 reveals that Sony is working on its own version of Microsoft's Kinect peripheral. The patent is for a "USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT", which involves plugging a camera into a PlayStation device and using it to track a person's movement and positioning in a 3D space.
Richard Marks, the main person behind the PlayStation Move controller, filed the patent. To clarify, this doesn't mean Sony will release a motion sensing camera for the PlayStation 3 or any current or future console (or handheld for that matter). This just means they are considering it.
The Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 and PC was in essence inspired by Sony's own EyeToy, a camera peripheral released for the PlayStation 2 and later updated for the PlayStation 3. The new patent in fact references Sony's 2003 trademark of that accessory.
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