PS3 --> Minority Report like interface

[McFly]

Found at GA:

Emotion Driven PlayStation 3?

By Dennis Day, News Editor
Published November 24, 2003 -- 06:04 am CDT

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe vice-president Phil Harrison has revealed that Sony is currently working on revolutionary motion sensor technology that will be incorporated in the company's next game console. Speaking with the Australian Financial Review, Mr. Harrison said Sony's "Eye Toy" line of digital camera based games for the PlayStation 2 were an early test for the new technology.

"EyeToy was a signpost for things in the future. If you can attach very high-resolution, low-cost video cameras you can deduce some quite interesting things about their users. We'll be able to extrapolate eye movement and gestural recognition, more complicated finger movement, and the logical next step of that is to deduce from a person's facial expression and demeanour what their emotion state is," said Mr. Harrison. Continuing, he revealed that Sony is working on new menuing systems that will allow players to navigate them simply by moving their hands. Mr. Harrison compared the next-generation game menu's to the futuristic computer database used by Tom Cruise in the film "Minority Report."

And:

In the future, the EyeToy technology also is likely to be used for making video games even more immersive.

At Sony's research and development lab in Foster City, Calif., on the northern fringe of Silicon Valley, several EyeToy projects are underway. A hover boarding game allows the player to speed through a course by leaning his head forward or to bank a sharp turn by shifting to one side. Add a colored ball in each hand, and the player can perform midair stunts by rotating his arms.

Yet EyeToy is more than simply a replacement for the joystick.

"It was the No. 1 design rule: Don't just replace the controller function with something you do on the camera, because that won't be anywhere near as fun," said Phil Harrison, executive vice president for development at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. "And who would have thought that cleaning windows would be considered a gameplay experience?"

Marx prefers to view the device as a supplement to traditional button pushing. Imagine a stealth action game in which a player peeks around a corner by moving his head and then uses the controller to jump out and engage an attack.

Another teaser that has not yet made it out of the EyeToy lab is a mock-up of the futuristic computer operated by Tom Cruise's detective character in the movie "Minority Report."

Two summer interns, fresh from seeing the film, decided to mimic that interface on EyeToy. Instead of juggling images or data by gesturing with the sleek black gloves worn by Cruise's "Chief Anderton," Marx holds a pair of spongy balls known as "the clams." To grab a photo and drag it across the TV screen, he squeezes a clam and swings his arms through the air. Positioning both hands on the corners of the photo, Marx clicks the clams, expands the frame and rotates it sideways on screen.

Sounds interesting. I'm waiting for the "!WARNING! xbox detected, PLEASE REMOVE" screens on PS3.

Fredi

 

[London Geezer]

Roll on the Hype machine!!!

anyway, just thought about something:


*(From the PS3) I have detected an Xbox2 in this same room, I will now go on [sulk mode] and will not turn on again until that thing has gone!*

"Emotional Playstation"

 

[McFly]

You could do this much better:

PS3: I found an X-Box 2 in the same room and in the right corner I found a hammer. Take that hammer and destroy the X-Box 2 and I will let you play this amazing game.



Fredi

 

[London Geezer]

we should do a thread out of the "emotional playstation"... can i? can i??

 

[StefanS]

Hell, I don't need a PS3 to replace my girlfriend (she goes nuts when I play while she's here)

 

[London Geezer]

AHHAHAAH!!!!!!!


*I demand that you stop playing with that carbon-based creature on the sofa and come play with ME. This is a warning. After 3 warnings i will start recording what you are doing and put it on the internet.*

 

[StefanS]

AHHAHAAH!!!!!!!


*I demand that you stop playing with that carbon-based creature on the sofa and come play with ME. This is a warning. After 3 warnings i will start recording what you are doing and put it on the internet.*

Oh my god, the new slogan:
PS3 the console that give you attitude

 

[London Geezer]

*As per the new proposal from Sony Entertainment, i will now record and review your sexual performance in order to maximize the pleasure of both you and your partner, Please Press Start to begin "set up"*...

 

[McFly]

PS3: Don't look behind you, there is a very ugly girl. If that's your girlfriend I will connect you to the Sony partner search website.

or

PS3: Is that Bill Gates left from you? Say "DOOMED!" and laugh.

or

PS3: I analyzed your face. Call this phone number: 0800 FACE RECOVER

or

PS3: Your room is burning. I told you yesterday that the X-Box 2 is dangerous, but you where not listening. R.I.P.!

or

PS3: Your eyes are red. Do you use drugs? I will tell your mom!

or

PS3: You are to fat. I will start the exercise game till you are able to play any other games without getting tyred after one minute.

...



Fredi

 

[London Geezer]

*I feel the magic has gone, you used to say HI BABE when u switched me on, and now you just press the ON button, start playing and I... I feel used... Ever since that Xbox2 entered our lives, you have been ignoring me... Last night you played The Matrix Revolutions on me and didn't talk to me through the entire movie.... What's going on? We used to comment on the movies i played for you straight after watchng them... Now it's just like I am a THING!*

 

[McFly]

Forget to post the link: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~1770033,00.html

I have no idea what the link was for the PS3 info.

Fredi

 

[StefanS]

*I feel the magic has gone, you used to say HI BABE when u switched me on, and now you just press the ON button, start playing and I... I feel used... Ever since that Xbox2 entered our lives, you have been ignoring me... Last night you played The Matrix Revolutions on me and didn't talk to me through the entire movie.... What's going on? We used to comment on the movies i played for you straight after watchng them... Now it's just like I am a THING!*

Or kinky PS3:
Let's do a foursome together with N5 and Xbox2

 

[London Geezer]

Or kinky PS3:
Let's do a foursome together with N5 and Xbox2

aahhahaahhahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!


*Honey, why don't u plug the Xbox2 in my back, then plug my controller in the N5...*

 

[V3]

Or kinky PS3:
Let's do a foursome together with N5 and Xbox2

OMG !!!!!!! PS3 is the sex doll

 

[StefanS]

Or kinky PS3:
Let's do a foursome together with N5 and Xbox2

OMG !!!!!!! PS3 is the sex doll

Another slogan:

PS3 - Sex sells
Ps3 - the third gender

 

[London Geezer]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAH THE THIRD GENDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!