Sony Patents Method for Turning Bananas into Gaming Controllers

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Sony has filed a patent that aims to turn bananas and other random objects into gaming controllers. The engineering challenge was spotted by GamesIndustry.biz, which shared excerpts from a recently published application explaining how a camera could be used to track and map virtual buttons onto passive items to transform them into steering wheels, flight sticks, and other kinds of control devices. It isn’t clear why Sony chose to use bananas to demonstrate the technology specifically, but if the idea pans out, PlayStation gamers could find themselves using a pair of fruit to control Kratos’ Blades of Chaos one day, among other creative uses.



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[Burticus]

Um, what?

 

[AntiQuark]

Leave bananas alone dammit, I like to munch while I game!

 

[Dogsofjune]

How about you turn them into gpu's.....

 

[Brian_B]

Can’t wait until the porn industry takes advantage of this.

 

[Denpepe]

they might last longer then their current controllers