Sony patents a software that responds to human reactions and body gestures
First there was the motion sensor that hyped the console wars and now its the Emotion Sensor. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA)has filed a patent for a software that recognizes various human emotions. We would be controlling games by our emotions like laughter, anger, excitement etc not just by touch and movement. According to the patent the application uses metadata to make it possible to input emotions via microphone and camera. It would be able to detect your high fives, yawn, appreciations etc along with many body movements. Hence enhancing the gaming experience. Glad to hear such a news being a Sony play station fan. My anticipations are certainly going high imagining a system that would react to the player making it an absolute entertainment. However all these speculations will be confirmed this week at the Sony’s Games Con Media conference.
This is actually pretty cool technology. My suspicion is they will incorporate this into other devices besides the PS platform, like TVs. Sony could then turn TV, which is a passive platform, into something more active and enable content producers to build “applications” on top of programming. For instance, a producer could build an analytics package that would sense which segments of a sitcom draw the most laughs.
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Sony has already utilized such a technology in Sony Ericson’s mobile C905
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