Currently, the AFK timers are quite long, and the hardware can't tell if you are sitting there or moved away for a long time. The patent aims to fix that issue.
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A Relatively New Sony Patent Describes the Concept of Pausing the game By Detecting Controller Motion
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So like pausing music when you take out an airpod or something but for controllers
I dip my controller real low and lean in when I'm taking something seriously, this is a fun experiment but don't think it'll end up much more
I dip my controller real low and lean in when I'm taking something seriously, this is a fun experiment but don't think it'll end up much more
Oh this is a nice idea for online afk players. Can just make the game start looking darker as a warning, then an actual warning message, and then you get kick off the multiplayer session.
I wanna yell "McDonalds!" to pause my game.
You already got the patent Sony, just combine the ideas!
youre right they should come out with some sort of gesture tracking/microphone enabled device for console!
I don't play games that can be paused but doesn't the controller disconnect already after a set amount of time. I would imagine if I was in a single player game it would effectively pause it already.
So this would be vaguely similar to how my phone knows when I'm picking it up, putting to my ear etc.?
Sounds good to me - having the game automatically pause if I put down the controller sounds convenient.
Sounds good to me - having the game automatically pause if I put down the controller sounds convenient.
Why push a button when you can wave your entire arm? Kinect was truly ahead of its time
Good idea but would rather have it pause when input is not detected after like 5 mins or something. I know it force pauses the game when the controller gets disconnected but idle time out is far longer than that on most controllers.
Boring, I'd rather an oldie but a goodie from Johnny Lee...
Maybe with the PS5's 3D Camera..
View: https://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw
Maybe with the PS5's 3D Camera..
View: https://youtu.be/Jd3-eiid-Uw
This, lol.
Here's a cool patent: The controller recognizes that you threw it in frustration across the room. When you pick up the controller again (if it still works) whatever tricky boss or tricky gameplay part frustrated you so much has been skipped.
No need to thank me, Sony. You are welcome. :)
I remember being so excited when I first saw this demo, but it turns out that it works so well because the camera filming the screen only has one 'eye' and it doesn't work anything like as well for the vast majority of us possessing stereoscopic vision.
Yeah I remember reading that years back in the comment section... but you would think Sony (or the old Sony) would come up with some neat tricks in game, with this cam... let alone just head tracking.
So when you rage quit and throw your controller, it pauses for you. So you and resume where you left off when calmed down.
I feel like theres these patents posted almost daily or at least weekly and almost all haven't really come to life.
Exactly.
If only there was a button on the controller that could be used for specifically this purpose.
Pointless. And also, potentially more unhelpful than helpful. Imagine if you're specifically waiting for a set period of in-game time, ala, a monster on a timed spawn, and you step away to do something else whilst it ticks down... Now the game pauses and you come back and you're only half way through the timer instead of almost done/done
I'd settle for an automatic pause when the controller battery runs out.
That would be nice to sort/standarise first before any fancy controller motion stuff
Seriously though Imagine playing a game and it keeps pausing in long cutscenes. Kojima games would be impossible to play.
That would be nice to sort/standarise first before any fancy controller motion stuff
Seriously though Imagine playing a game and it keeps pausing in long cutscenes. Kojima games would be impossible to play.
