Sony Interactive Entertainment recently published a patent for a VR motion controller. Filed with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), the patent outlines a VR motion controller with embedded LED tracking markers. The technical document also outlines that it could be tracked optically from the headset. There’s no mention of finger tracking as with Valve Index Controllers although the patent is more concerned with differing sensor configurations, detailing a cluster of 30 per controller.
Again, this may or may not be a PSVR 2 controller in the making, but it’s clear a more standard, optically tracked controller would be a big step in the right direction in bringing the platform’s capabilities in line with both the PC and standalone headset side of things. That is of course provided the VR headset doesn’t rely on the upcoming PS5 HD Camera, which would bring up back to square one in terms of 360, occlusion-free tracking.
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