WTF?! While sport controllers have turn into extra superior over the a long time, their primary kind and performance have modified little. But a Sony patent describes one thing that is removed from typical: a controller that may change form and temperature based mostly on the sport you are enjoying.
The patent, first noticed by gaming web site Exputer, mentions a controller that features a sensor utilizing an elastically deformable “elastic member.” This can detect when gamers deform the controller by touching, urgent, twisting, pinching, squeezing, or rubbing it. The grips change form or hardness utilizing a magnetic fluid combined into the fabric of the elastic member.
“The shape or hardness of the portions of the elastic members (grips) changes in response to a process performed by the information processing apparatus such as a game, which makes it possible, for example, to present the material of a virtual object in a game space to the user as a haptic sensation, present the temperature of the virtual object as a warm/cold sense, or the like,” states the patent.
The concept of a thermoelectric warmth pump in a controller sounds fascinating. Imagine your arms getting colder as you stroll by means of the snow in God of War, or heating up when your character takes hearth harm in a sport. The patent additionally means that the temperature may change even additional the extra a consumer squeezes and deforms the controller.
Elsewhere, the patent describes a method by which elements or sections of a controller might be torn off and caught again collectively once more. This would presumably require a sport particularly designed to benefit from such an uncommon function.
The photos in Sony’s patent present that the essential form and structure of the controller stay the identical; it is simply that this one can bend, twist, change form, warmth up, settle down, and be pulled aside/reattached. That would doubtless make it extra interesting to players who do not all the time embrace main redesigns; the Steam Controller, for instance, by no means turned as profitable as Valve anticipated.
The caveat right here, after all, is that that is only a patent. Companies file bizarre and weird designs like this on a regular basis, and most by no means find yourself turning into precise merchandise – they typically do it simply to stop rivals from creating one thing comparable. Moreover, it is doubtless that if this controller ever did attain the market, its value would make the PlayStation DualSense Edge appear to be a cut price.
