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# Wait, the Sony Kinect? [Head explode]
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/wait-the-sony-kinect/
- Published: 2012-02-22T16:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:10:00.000Z
- Description: Shouts out to Kotaku for catching that Sony has patented some motion-sensing technology that is explicitly similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect: The patent is for a “USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT”, which would involve plugging a camera into a PlayStation and using it to
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Shouts out to *Kotaku* for catching that Sony has patented some motion-sensing technology that is explicitly similar to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect:

> The patent is for a “USER-DRIVEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERACTIVE GAMING ENVIRONMENT”, which would involve plugging a camera into a PlayStation and using it to read both a player’s movements and their positioning in a 3D space.  
>  
> It was filed by none other than Richard Marks, the main man behind Sony’s PlayStation Move peripheral.

So, be on the lookout for that. In the meantime, here’s something to have a think about: is moving gaming into a three-dimensional spatial environment necessarily good? Yeah, it’s pretty cool, but running around in a virtual world can be just as tiring as running around in the real world. Don’t we sometimes just play games to take a break?

*\-Drew Millard*

\[via *[Kotaku](http://kotaku.com/5886768/sony-working-on-its-own-kinect/gallery/1?ref=killscreen.com)*\]