Sony Patents Futuristic Interactive TV
Sony has been on the scene of cutting-edge technology for years now. Their 3D holographic display was shown publicly in Tokyo only weeks ago, and several other interesting futuristic technologies have also been demonstrated. Judging by a recent patent, Sony has plans for an upcoming technology which allows consumers to not only watch movies, but interact with them as well.
As shown in the image above, this recently patented Sony technology provides consumers with the ability to interact with on-screen overlays while watching videos and other media. The patent mentions that the technology draws inspiration from Mystery Science Theater 3000 which was a popular comedy series in the 90′s. Also mentioned in the official document is the following:
“For example, avatars displayed to a user, in response to user gestures in the real world, e.g. in response to manipulation of a game controller or other such expedient, may toss tomatoes that stick to the actor’s face or bounce off the actor’s face and roll along a table that appears in the movie or television show.”
The potential for this technology is limitless, and will include co-operative and interactive games to keep consumers entertained. While the technology will be utilized with the PlayStation 3 is up in the air, the combination of this technology with the recently announced PlayStation 3 Netflix integration seems like a big win for PlayStation 3 owners.
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15 Responses to “Sony Patents Futuristic Interactive TV”
I hope you can record the voice-overs and make videos out of them.
throwing tomatoes sounds like fun, porn will never be the same lol
hmmm more motion controller stuff i guess.
sounds neat in all but who knows if it actually goes into production
Looks like the PS3 Eye motion technology is going to more devices than the PS3. GO SONY!!!
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Anyway, this could be fun. Im interested to see if this ever actually comes out
Interesting, looks like this is based on cloud computing by the figure 24
@ JohhnyTruant5
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@ Devon Simpson
that is exactly what I was thinking. evidently you don’t have to have much to come up with a patent these days. definitely interested to see where this is going.
Sounds interesting but the diagram above looks like gobbledegook to me! lol
@JohnnyTruant5
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@St-Anger – agreed on the gobbledegook!
@JohnnyTruant5
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@JohnnyTruant5 –
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+1 for the brain jumble
Great for football games so you can throw digital beer bottles at a lousy Ref , or Ump.
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