Greetings. Seeing that Sony patented new types of motion controllers, I was wondering if any of those patents ever come to life. You remember that Switch like patent too which many claimed it was PS Vita 2?
Well this tech wasn't just a patent, it was a real thing,
just like the advanced haptic tech that never saw the light.
There are several issues which will be corrected in time.
1) You need a higher res (4K) camera to track eyes at living room distances. This is turn means a new PS4 with cameras above 720P.
2) Eye tracking was envisioned for 8K TVs in Sony 2010 whitepapers where the attention of the viewer(s) would determine which view of 5 would be moved to the center larger window/screen. It could also be used for Foveated rendering and of course tracking the gamers attention. PS4 Pro has many features out of Polaris which is the first AMD GPU to support Foveated rendering. You need HDMI 2.1 to properly support 8K TVs which should come with a new PS4.
3) Off topic but germane because a new PS4 will have to support Eye tracking inside VR Goggles required for Foveated rendering which is necessary for 4K/EYE VR.
Sony is releasing 8K TVs 2020. A new VR 4k/eye VR goggle should be released close to and likely before 2020. AMD's Infinity Fabric would allow PS4/5s to support SL3000 DRM (UHD Blu-ray) and more efficiently support Foveated rendering.
Haptic tech and
8K @ 300FPS were mentioned in the 2012 Sony CTO article on Tech needed for Playstation. It was mentioned that they may need to wait 5 years for the Technology. HDMI 2.1 was released in 2017 = 2012 + 5.
So anytime now at the earliest Holiday 2018 but before a new 4K VR Goggle or the 2020 8K TVs are released. Micron GDDR6 slides have a new Game console using GDDR6 ~ end of 2018 and
efficientgaming.eu has new Power caps published for 2019.
Sony has a UHD Blu-ray license for game consoles and PCs, both the software and drive, that they have not used yet. My guess is that they are waiting for PCs and possibly PS4/5s to have the DRM necessary. Infinity Fabric in AMD Vega and later GPUs can do this. Why PCs and PS4/5s, because they have the power to support the UHD Digital bridge that Sony, Sharp and Panasonic wanted with every Player. In addition a UHD Blu-ray player with digital bridge has the hardware to support a DVR for ATSC 3.0 and streaming to other platforms in the home. Sony and the Pearl group are going to have ATSC 3.0 stations in 24 markets by the end of 2018.
