Sony Patent Points To Finger-Tracking Controller

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In what may be reminiscent of an old Nintendo accessory, Sony appears to be cooking up an alternate method of control for PlayStation VR.

PlayStation VR already has a hand-tracking solution, of course, in the form of the PlayStation Move controllers that were first released for the PlayStation 3 in 2010. But this glove offers a bit more functionality than those handheld wands, including sensors that can "identify a flex of at least one finger portion," contact sensors that can detect when you touch a thumb to another fingertip, and sensors that measure the user's "finger position pose" (which can then be rendered on the screen).
 
They tried this before with the PS2 and the PS Eye, except it wasn't NEARLY as accurate.
 
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