Motion sensors are so three months ago. Sony has filed a patent for an emotion sensor to be used to detect a gamers feelings during a game such as joy, anger or sadness.
Using clever tech the application uses metadata to detect players laughter and other forms of emotional expression during a game via microphone and camera.
According to the patent it will be used to detect a players “laugh”, “frown”, “yawn”, “applaud” or boo’s and other such outward emotions projected by gamers bodies.
The bizarre plans indicate that it could be used to measure a players reaction to what’s in front of them in order to keep them more entertained, which would come in particularly handy during incredibly long cutscenes *cough*Metal Gear Solid 4 *cough*.
If it does come to fruition it looks like Sony could find a way to implement it into the PlayStation Eye camera for PS3, which also has a microphone.
Sony’s not exactly new to emotion detecting tech. The company’s Sony Ericsson C905 mobile touts face detection to capture now commonly found on a range of cameras.
