SONY had patented a controller-glove for virtual reality
SERGEY GRAY
To see your hands in virtual reality – it is indescribable the feeling. And numerous manufacturers of VR headsets understand this. Someone is trying to solve this problem by using clever sensors, and someone just proposes to use the usual controllers with buttons. Sony next month plans to reveal to us the date of commencement of sales and the final price of their гарнитурыPlayStation VR, but it seems that there is more to this company. Probably Japanese engineers are seriously considering to raise the idea of creating the controllers-glove for virtual reality.
Portal user NeoGAF under the nickname Rosti found an interesting patent, recently designed by Sony Corporation. It describes the concept of a gadget, which is a glove to track the position of the user’s hand and its fingers in space. The device, apparently, works in conjunction with the camera of (PlayStation Camera), as equipped with a glowing sphere, familiar to us thanks to the PlayStation Move controllers. But the most interesting is hidden in the text describing the patent.
Apparently, the sphere is just the tip of the iceberg, as the glove contains a variety of flexible sensors that allow to track not only the position of the individual fingers, but also interactions between them. In other words, the game or application will be aware, if you touched one finger to another, it is, for example, offers developers wide possibilities for the realization of human and virtual interface. To heighten the realism, the bracelet is attached to a glove, contains within itself the mechanisms for tactile feedback, i.e. it will vibrate in the interaction of a virtual hand and some object. Just imagine that you hold in your hand a virtual gun, pull the trigger with your finger and feel the physical impact of the shot.
Gloves will also keep track of various user gestures. For example, if you phone rang and you answer it – you can rastopite the little finger and thumb (so usually people depict the handset) and the game immediately gets paused. Put the game on pause and another gesture, which is used in sports games (like the letter “T”). If you suddenly want to record a part of the gameplay, fold two hands in kind of a rectangular frame, as artists look at nature before you begin writing your canvas, and the console will immediately start recording video.
We remind you that on 15 March as part of the annual exhibition GDC company Openacsbase us more about his vision for virtual reality. We are closely watching the news and will try to promptly share them with you.
