While Sony released the Eyetoy before Microsoft's Kinect, it hasn't exactly caught on as well as Sony might have liked. Now, it seems, Sony might be readying a new Eyetoy for the PS4 and it even looks to improve on the Kinect in a lot of different ways.
In an unearthed patent filed by Sony, it suggests that the company is not only working on a 3D depth sensing camera similar to the Kinect, but that it might even let players use their fingers as a gun with the camera sensing your finger gestures for different on-screen results.
The actual patent lists this feature down and you can read it below.
For example, the user may be able to shoot by different hand gestures, may be able to reload the gun with different gestures, and the different positions or orientations of the user’s hand may cause different graphical renderings of the user or gun on the display screen when the user is interacting with a particular game program.
If that sounds a little vague to you, you can also check out the patent image detailing how this might work.
If Sony can pull this off, then it might give its latest iteration of the Eyetoy an edge over Kinect since the latter can't do finger tracking. Of course, the current-gen Kinect can't, who's to say Kinect 2 won't.
Before you see your hands as actual weapons in-game, keep in mind that this is just a patent for now and we can't say for sure if the PS4 will actually feature something like this. But if is part of Sony's next-gen plans, then shooters and the like might not even need a controller for you to play them.
Would you want to play an FPS using this control method or would it be too inaccurate in the long run? If not as guns, what would an ingenious way of using your hands as controllers be for you?
Source: PS Lifestyel
